By Samuel K. Dykstra | Published November 17, 2015 | Posted in Clean Air Act, Federal Environmental Law | Leave a comment
The saga involving Volkswagen’s alleged use of illegal “defeat devices” in a number of its vehicles continued on Monday November 2, 2015, with EPA issuing a second Notice of Violation (NOV) to several of Volkswagen’s American entities. Notably, unlike a NOV issued in mid-September the Notice was issued to not just Volkswagen and Audi, but Read More
Read MoreOn August 6, 2015, the New Jersey Supreme Court decided Ross v. Lowitz,Nos. A-101 September Term 2013, 074200. The Court’s opinion sheds some light on the state of New Jersey nuisance and trespass law. Yet it also raises some important questions about what a Plaintiff alleging environmental contamination and seeking tort damages must prove in Read More
Read MoreEnvironmental Attorneys Named to Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists Lieberman Blecher & Sinkevich is pleased to announce that for the year 2015, founding partners Stuart J. Lieberman and Shari M. Blecher have been named “Super Lawyers,” and that shareholder Michael G. Sinkevich, Jr. and associate Shawn M. LaTourette have been named “Rising Stars” by Super Lawyers Magazine.* This is a continued honor for Read More
Read MoreFamily Seeks to Preserve Pinelands, Property A Township of Medford family filed suit on February 23, 2015 in the Burlington County Superior Court, alleging their neighbors engaged in the improper clearcutting of 11,000 square feet of native vegetation and trees in the protected Pinelands area of New Jersey. According to the lawsuit, filed by Plaintiffs Read More
Read MoreWhat does a governing body do when a municipality’s planning board recommends changes to its master plan? Does the council have to adopt the changes to the municipal ordinance? Can the council reject the recommendations? Or can it simply ignore the planning board altogether? On January 16, 2015, the Appellate Division’s opinion in in Myers Read More
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