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August 19, 2005 |

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.
6 minute read
August 02, 2004 |

Court Strikes Two Wetlands Rules, Saying DEP Overshot Authority

The state Supreme Court handed builders a unanimous victory last Monday, finding that state environmental regulators overstepped their statutory authority in writing two wetlands-protection rules.
2 minute read
November 10, 1999 |

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.
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February 21, 2005 |

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.
6 minute read
June 20, 2003 |

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.
5 minute read
August 24, 2007 |

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.
7 minute read
August 24, 2007 |

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.
7 minute read
April 29, 2002 |

Stein, Frequent Dissenter of N.J. Court, Will Resign in Fall

Gary Stein, the last link to the renowned and at times controversial New Jersey Supreme Court once led by former Chief Justice Robert Wilentz will step down Sept. 1, nine months before his mandatory retirement date.
5 minute read
May 29, 2006 |

Slaying the White Elephant

Since New Jersey's procedure is already well established, the Supreme Court has, by the Kelo decision, essentially given its approval. It does not, however resolve major areas of criticism of the current state of redevelopment law in New Jersey.
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