The Supreme Court of New Jersey reversed and remanded a lower court decision awarding $375,000 in damages to beachfront property owners whose oceanfront view was obstructed by a dune built to serve as a barrier from powerful storms and ocean surges. A city used its power of eminent domain to constru...

The First Circuit vacated and remanded a lower court decision dismissing a recycling company's lawsuit that disposable food container manufacturers and two trade associations refused in concert to deal with the company in a closed-loop recycling business method for polystyrene food service products....

A district court held, in an unpublished opinion, that a company that sold its facility, including equipment that contained asbestos dust and waste, may not be held liable as an owner or operator or as an arranger under CERCLA. Nearly 20 years after the company sold the site, the new owner abandoned...