Ayers v. Jackson, Township of

ELR Citation: ELR 20858
No(s). A-83/84 (N.J. May 7, 1987)

The New Jersey Supreme Court holds that 339 residents of Jackson Township are entitled to $8 million in damages for diminished quality of life and the cost of annual medical surveillance as a result of well-water contamination by toxic pollutants that leached from the township's landfill. The court ...