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Supreme Court considers temporary takings case

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 2 2012

The US Supreme Court recently heard oral argument regarding a condemnation case which could have significant impacts

Appellate division holds that a person who acquired contaminated real property before 1993 without conducting reasonable investigation can be held liable under NJ Spill Act

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 23 2012

In New Jersey Schools Development Auth. v. Marcantuone, Docket No. A-1868-10T3 (N.J. Super. Oct. 29, 2012), the Appellate Division recently ruled that a person who purchased contaminated property before 1993 and did not contribute to the contamination in any way will nevertheless be held liable under the New Jersey Spill Compensation and Control Act, N.J.S.A. N.J.S.A. 58:10-23.11 to -23.24, for environmental clean up costs if they did not conduct a reasonable investigation of possible pollution before purchasing the property

US Supreme Court to decide eminent domain case

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 29 2012

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal of a Federal Circuit’s decision in an eminent domain case

US Supreme Court gives property owners right to obtain pre-enforcement judicial review of EPA CWA compliance orders

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 22 2012

In a unanimous decision issued yesterday, the US Supreme Court for the first time gave property owners the right to pursue immediate judicial review of a compliance order issued by EPA under the Clean Water Act

Township’s denial of sewage repair permit not abuse of discretion where inconsistent with property land development plans

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 8 2011

The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court recently held in In Re Rainmaker Capital of Chestnut Hill, LLC (June 15, 2011) that a township’s denial of a developer’s sewage repair permit was not an abuse of discretion where (1) the permit violated a prior agreement between the developer and the township and (2) the permit was inconsistent with the developer’s land development plans for the property

Northeast Pennsylvania SMSA Ltd. Partnership v. Scott Tp. Zoning Hearing Bd.,

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 8 2011

In Northeast Pennsylvania SMSA Ltd. Partnership v. Scott Tp. Zoning Hearing Bd., 18 A.3d 1272 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2011), decided April 18, 2011, the Commonwealth Court examined an appeal by local neighbors regarding a dimensional variance that allowed NorthEast Pennsylvania SMSA Limited Partnership (Verizon) to construct a cell phone tower near the neighbors’ properties

Case summary: Pohlig Builders, LLC v. Zoning Hearing Board of Schuylkill Township

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 8 2011

In Pohlig Builders, LLC v. Zoning Hearing Board of Schuylkill Township, 15 A.3d 563, 2011 WL 2084174, Pa. Cmwlth, March 17, 2011 (No. 782 C.D. 2010), the Commonwealth Court addressed the Schuylkill Township Board of Supervisors’ zoning appeal based on a variance granted to Pohlig Builders (the developers) to disturb an area of steep slopes such that the developers could construct their proposed residential development

Supreme Court to hear arguments tomorrow in eminent domain case

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 1 2009

The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments tomorrow in the case Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection