By Stuart Lieberman | Published March 21, 2023 | Posted in New Jersey Environmental Laws | Tagged Tags: DEP settlement enforcement, ISRA cleanup, ISRA settlement, NJDEP settlement, Property owner and operator responsibility under ISRA, Settlement and declaratory Judgment lawsuit, What triggers ISRA | Comments Off on Appeals court upholds Industrial park requirements to undertake environmental cleanup but rejects DEP’s demands for penalties
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⟩ Appeals court upholds Industrial park requirements to undertake environmental cleanup but rejects DEP’s demands for penalties
A New Jersey appeals court has affirmed the decision of a New Jersey trial court requiring an industrial establishment to conduct a full environmental remediation at its property. This occurred in the case of Dorine Industrial Park Partnership versus NJ DEP, at al, which was decided on March 6, 2023. At issue was a business Read More
Read MoreLieberman Blecher and Sinkevich Announces New Partner and New Associate
Lieberman Blecher & Sinkevich, PC is proud to announce the naming of Ms. Brittany W. DeBord, Esq. as a shareholder. Brittany joined the firm as an associate attorney in 2016, with a focus on environmental law, including litigation, regulatory compliance and permitting, as well as toxic exposure litigation, real estate transactions, and land use matters. Read More
Read MoreVillage of Ridgefield Park v. Outfront Media, LLC and Planning/Zoning Board of the Borough of Bogota
The Superior Court of New Jersey’s Appellate Division recently upheld a board decision to approve the settlement of an application for a conditional use variance and final site plan approval to install a billboard on property along a highway. In Village of Ridgefield Park v. Outfront Media, LLC and Planning/Zoning Board of the Borough of Read More
Read MorePCBs and other chemicals found in Colonia high school
How is it that PCBs and other cancer causing compounds have been found in Colonia High School? Where is the outrage? Where is the speedy competent response? A mother of a student who is an environmental scientist took samples that revealed that there are unsafe levels of PCBs and other chemicals at a Colonia High Read More
Read MoreCondo Association Is Awarded Monthly Fees and Penalties, but not Counsel Fees
The State Appeals Court has just issued an opinion awarding monthly condominium assessments and some penalties, but reversing a lower court’s sizable award of counsel fees. In Cross Roads Condominium Association v. Cosentino, Appellate Division Docket Number A-3599-20, decided on September 28, 2022, the Court ruled that the trial court did not adequately review the Read More
Read MoreAppellate Division applies rarely used equitable doctrine to preserve HOA
The Superior Court of New Jersey’s Appellate Division recently found that sums owed by a bank to a Homeowners’ Association (HOA) after the bank acquired a portion of a residential community at a foreclosure sale were not discharged despite the sequence of recordation, in direct contravention of New Jersey’s recording statute. In Fulton Bank of Read More
Read MoreScreening for Criminal Record may lead to Fair Housing Act violation
A recent memo by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) appears to lay the basis for a Fair Housing Act (the “Act”) complaint for discrimination in situations where a tenant or potential buyer is kicked out of or denied housing where the sole cause of the ejection/denial is the tenant/potential buyer’s criminal Read More
Read MoreLBS Sues New Jersey Department of Transportation for Stormwater Easement in Cedar Grove
Lieberman Blecher & Sinkevich is proud to represent Carolyn O’Connell in her lawsuit against the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), for the damage caused to her property by a stormwater easement next to her house. As reported in NJ.com, the lawsuit challenges the damage to Ms. O’Connell’s home in Cedar Grove from the stormwater Read More
Read MoreTwo Days Community Associations Make the News for Unusual Reasons
Condo boards and home owner associations usually don’t make headlines. But sometimes they do and we have had a month filled with some unusual events First, we actually have a person who lost a condo board election filing a lawsuit to challenge the results. Most boards don’t have enough people volunteering for office to Read More
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