Martin Allen, partner in the firm, will be a panelist on “A Mock County Board Hearing” at the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Association of County Tax Boards. Friday, September 2, 2011 at 9:00 am at The Grand…
Steve Kunzman, partner in the firm, will be a co-chair of a comprehensive conference:
Groundwater Contamination and Vapor Intrusion Cases
The seminar, which will be put on by Law Seminars International, will take place at the Sheraton Newark Airport…
In
NJDEP v. Saint Gobain Plastics Corp. DiFrancesco, Bateman succeeded in having the State’s common law claims for natural resource damages (NRD) dismissed under New Jersey’s 10 year statute of limitations for the State’s assertion of claims: N.J.S.A. 2A:14A-1.2. Contamination…
Retired Judge
Harriet Derman, who heads our alternative dispute resolution team, was named by Governor Chris Christie to his newly constituted Judicial Advisory Panel. The mission of the seven person Panel is to provide the Governor with “independent and…
Judge
Harriet Derman retired from the Bench in Somerset County where she had been the Presiding Judge of the Equity Division for Somerset, Hunterdon, and Warren Counties and the Probate Judge for Somerset County. She now leads the Alternative Dispute…
In
Davanne v. Edison, (see previous blog entry of Feb. 19,2010)
Martin Allen successfully argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court that the 8th Amendment prohibition against unreasonable and excessive fines does not apply to a dismissal of a…
Martin Allen recently argued before the NJ Appellate Division in the case of Hunterdon
Medical Center v. Readington. In that case, the N J Supreme Court reversed in part and remanded the matter to the Tax Court to determine…
Mr. Allen appeared on February 4 as a speaker at the Monmouth County Assessor’s 4th Annual Conference. The topic of his talk was the “
Legal Pathway through the Appeal Process” in which he discussed the procedural defenses and…
Martin Allen of the firm recent obtained a decision from the Tax Court in
Kolvites v Manville (unreported), which has become a case frequently cited for its holdings. The Court held that a case cannot be dismissed at the County…
Martin Allen recently argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court in
Davanne v. Edison. The issue of the case is whether the dismissal of a tax appeal pursuant to Chapter 91 (
N.J.S.A.54:4-34) is unconstitutional pursuant to the…