Property Transfers Among Family Members Do Not Negate Innocent Party Status For Remediation Funding Grants

The cost to remediate contaminated sites can be significant and the scope of liability under environmental laws is deliberately broad.  In many cases under theories of strict, joint and several liability, property owners inherit liability for environmental contamination caused by predecessor owners.  The affirmative innocent purchaser defense is intended to provide a mechanism to limit […]

Appellate Division Reaffirms Position that Pinelands Protection Act Supersedes the Municipal Land Use Law

In a recent unpublished decision, Peg Leg Webb, LLC v. New Jersey Pinelands Commission, A-4016-15T4 (Unpub. App. Div. October 11, 2017), a panel of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, reaffirmed that the Pinelands Protection Act (Act), as well as any regulations or authorities promulgated thereto, supersede any authority vested under the municipalities […]