New Jersey Dep't of Envtl. Protection v. Gloucester Envtl. Management Servs.

ELR Citation: ELR 21346
No(s). 84-152(JBS) (D.N.J. Mar 22, 1995)

The court holds that when the state of New Jersey acts in its sovereign capacity to invoke the jurisdiction of a federal court to assert state-law claims against a waste hauler and its customers, it waives its Eleventh Amendment immunity with respect to contribution claims by third-party plaintiffs ...