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I/M/O Freshwater Wetlands Statewide General Permits
Neighboring property owners challenging the DEP's issuance of a freshwater wetlands permit are not entitled to a trial-type hearing before the Office of Administrative Law.Coverage Fracas Continues Over Alleged Bad Legal Work By County
Six months after an injured motorist won a $19.3 million judgment against Camden County, insurers are struggling to disclaim coverage on the ground that the county's lawyers failed to give them proper notice of the claim.612 Associates, L.L.C. v. North Bergen Municipal Utilities Authority
Each sewerage authority that serves a property may charge a nonduplicative connection fee.Judges in a Funk Over Junk Faxes
No group would seem to be more similarly situated or innumerable than junk fax recipients, but New Jersey judges are at odds over whether those besieged by unwanted paper may sue as a class. This month one judge certified as a class those who received unsolicited faxed advertisements for Spanish Yellow Pages and related entities in the past six years. But another judge recently ruled the other way in reversing her grant of class certification last year.Suit Seeks Class-Action Status For Receivers of 'Junk Faxes'
Junk faxes are annoying and wasteful, but are the helpless, involuntary recipients certifiable as a class? That's the issue in a class-action suit filed by the author of a popular Internet guidebook in behalf of himself and all other people similarly affronted. The suit alleges a New Jersey company violated the 1991 federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The act allows plaintiffs to bring an action in state court, and allows courts to impose a $500 fine for each illegal fax.A Swell of Suits Over Dam Failures
Owners of Burlington County dams that failed during a "1,000-year rainstorm" last July are facing a deluge of damage claims. Three putative class actions in state Superior Court allege that flooding in the town of Lumberton was intensified by dam failures upstream.N.J. Summer Associate Ranks Are Stable, Except at Gibbons
Something will be missing from the trip to Yankee Stadium, the cocktail party and other outings at Newark, N.J.'s Gibbons Del Deo this summer: summer associates. The firm is forgoing its program, traditionally one of the largest in the state, as it directs recruiting efforts toward experienced laterals. Other firms may have been tempted to do likewise, but seem to be holding the line on hiring.Island Venture Associates v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection,
DEP's Settlement Discretion Scrutinized
Leading role in dispute resolution taken by New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's alternative dispute resolution process could drastically change, depending on the outcome of an anticipated appeal of a recent DEP Commissioner's decision.Trending Stories
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