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Be careful with home improvements in New Jersey

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
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  • USA
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  • July 31 2011

In New Jersey, consumer fraud laws require every “home improvement contract” for a price in excess of $500, and all changes to the contract, to be in a writing signed by all of the parties

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

Court finds construction of sewage lagoons did not cause de facto taking

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

A Berks County trial court recently rejected the claim of property owners that the construction of sewage lagoons adjacent to their homes caused a “de facto” taking of their properties

More homeowner lawsuits against builders in Pennsylvania

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

The Pennsylvania Superior Court recently confirmed what many Pennsylvania trial courts and practitioners had already concluded: "remote" purchasers of residential homes may sue the original builder of the home for certain construction defects