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Camden Scrapyard Fire Prompts Legislative Action on Battery and Shredder Waste Regulations

By | Published May 20, 2025 | Posted in Environmental Law | Comments Off on Camden Scrapyard Fire Prompts Legislative Action on Battery and Shredder Waste Regulations

In response to a major fire in February 2025, at the EMR scrapyard in Camden, Assemblyman William F. Moen Jr. introduced a package of bills intended to reduce fire risk and improve environmental oversight at scrap metal facilities. On May 8, 2025, the Assembly Environment, Natural Resources and Solid Waste Committee advanced two of the Read More

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Controversial music festival moved after LBS lawsuit

By | Published May 8, 2025 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Controversial music festival moved after LBS lawsuit

The Ocean Club Condominium Association hired LBS as special counsel in a legal fight against BRT Weekend in Atlantic City. For ABC News coverage of the story, Click here for the full story. For the NJ.com article, click here. LBS provided Ocean Club with guidance for several land use issues that were important to our client. We appreciate Read More

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Appellate Court Allows New Evidence in Toms River Contamination Case

By | Published March 19, 2025 | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Tags: | Comments Off on Appellate Court Allows New Evidence in Toms River Contamination Case

Michele Donato won a critical legal ruling on behalf of Save Barnegat Bay in a challenge to a natural resource damage settlement between the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and BASF Corporation. In the appeal, Save Barnegat Bay (SBB) argues that the DEP failed to consider the damages caused to the Toms River, Read More

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Appellate Court Reverses Lower Court Ruling on Solar Energy Project, Clarifying Zoning Ordinance Interpretations

By | Published March 14, 2025 | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Appellate Court Reverses Lower Court Ruling on Solar Energy Project, Clarifying Zoning Ordinance Interpretations

Gloucester Solar I, LLC recently sought approval to build a commercial solar energy facility in the Business District of Franklin Township. The Township’s zoning ordinance did not explicitly include solar energy facilities as a permitted use in the Business District.  Gloucester argued at a public hearing in front of the Zoning Board that the district Read More

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No Two Ways About It: Neptune Ordinances Properly Protect Historic District of Ocean Grove, Court Holds, Preventing Homeowners from Rebuilding Double Walkways Across Historic Open Space

By | Published March 14, 2025 | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Tags: , , , , , | Comments Off on No Two Ways About It: Neptune Ordinances Properly Protect Historic District of Ocean Grove, Court Holds, Preventing Homeowners from Rebuilding Double Walkways Across Historic Open Space

The Appellate Division rejected a Neptune couple’s argument this February that they should be allowed to tear down and rebuild preexisting nonconforming walkways that traverse a historic open space without approval from the local Historic Preservation Committee (HPC). The Court held in William E. Taylor, IV and Rachel Taylor v. Zoning Board of the Township Read More

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Appellate Division Underscores Criteria Necessary for (c)(2) Variance Approval

By | Published February 24, 2025 | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Tags: , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Appellate Division Underscores Criteria Necessary for (c)(2) Variance Approval

In Kaja v. Borough of West Long Branch Planning Board, 2025 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 171, a recent unreported Appellate Division decision, the Court upheld the Borough of West Long Branch Planning Board’s (the “Board”) decision to deny the plaintiff’s application to subdivide his single-family residential property and to construct a second single-family home. In Read More

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Board Rejects Controversial Apartment Plan Due to Community Impacts, Traffic, and Environmental Issues

By | Published February 13, 2025 | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Board Rejects Controversial Apartment Plan Due to Community Impacts, Traffic, and Environmental Issues

Union Township’s Planning Board recently rejected a proposal for an 11-unit apartment building in the Larchmont section, located at 1005 Larchmont Road, near the Morris Avenue intersection. The project aimed to replace an existing single-family home with a three-story building featuring 11 apartments and an asphalt parking lot. Although the proposal met most of the Read More

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Appellate Division Emphasizes the Standard of Scientifically Recognized Methodology Necessary to Admit Expert Testimony

By | Published January 13, 2025 | Posted in Appellate Practice, Environmental Litigation, Site Remediation | Tagged Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Appellate Division Emphasizes the Standard of Scientifically Recognized Methodology Necessary to Admit Expert Testimony

The Appellate Division emphasized in an unreported decision the standard of methodology-based testimony that experts must demonstrate in order to be deemed reliable and admissible into evidence. In Dorrell v. Woodruff Energy, 2021 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 397, the Appellate Division reiterated that a party advancing expert testimony must show that the proffered witness has Read More

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New Jersey’s Affordable Housing Law Advances Amid Lawsuit and Political Debate

By | Published January 10, 2025 | Posted in Affordable Housing | Tagged Tags: , , , , , | Comments Off on New Jersey’s Affordable Housing Law Advances Amid Lawsuit and Political Debate

As New Jersey grapples with a housing crisis that mirrors national trends, the state’s updated affordable housing law is moving forward. A key development occurred at the start of 2025 when Mercer County Judge Robert Lougy rejected a motion to delay the implementation of the law, following a lawsuit filed by several municipalities. The ruling, Read More

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Lieberman Blecher & Sinkevich Proudly Halts Huge Pinelands Residential Development on Environmental Grounds

By | Published January 6, 2025 | Posted in Environmental Justice, Environmental Litigation, Land Use, Litigation, Zoning | Tagged Tags: , , , , , , | Comments Off on Lieberman Blecher & Sinkevich Proudly Halts Huge Pinelands Residential Development on Environmental Grounds

On December 5, 2024, the Pemberton Township Planning Board voted 6-3 to reject an application for an 89-unit residential development, based on environmental concerns brought to the Board by the Pinelands Preservation Alliance, represented by Lieberman Blecher & Sinkevich. The potential developer proposed to place the large residential development at a site off Lakehurst Road Read More

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  • On the Run: Runner/lawyer DeBord out to protect the environment she loves

    Bucks County Herald, January 4, 2024

    When Brittany DeBord runs along the Delaware River canal towpath or on the trails of Tyler State Park, she doesn’t just appreciate the natural beauty of the...

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  • Gulf Coast Town Center facing foreclosure

    Naples Daily News, September 16, 2015

    Wells Fargo filed a lawsuit Sept. 8 against an affiliate of CBL & Associates, the owners of the decadeold, 1.2 million-square-foot mall in south Fort Myers for a $190.9 million unpaid loan. The center has 94 stores on 204 acres, with such anchors as Super Target, Belk, Best Buy, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Marshalls and Costco...

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  • Town liable for private company's leaking underground tanks, court rules

    NJ.com Jul 26, 2017

    CRANFORD -- A couple that owned a businesses in town and became sick from leaking underground tanks owned by an adjacent business can sue the township for damages because the tanks were partially ...

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  • Dark Waters: How a Class Action Catapulted NJ to Forefront of 'Forever Chemicals' Battle

    NJ Law Journal Jan 09, 2020

    As property owners become increasingly aware of PFAS contamination, and as individuals exposed to PFAS learn of the health risks associated with exposure, liability will likely affect entire supply chains.

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