On February 26, 2015, in Coty US LLC v. 680 S. 17th Street LLC, the Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, pierced the veil of a New Jersey limited liability company and held its sole member liable for environmental cleanup costs it agreed to undertake in the purchase of real estate in
Industrial Site Recovery Act
Court Invalidates NJDEP Cleanup Rule For De Minimus Quantity Exemptions
By Gerard M. Giordano on
Posted in Environmental Litigation
On July 6, 2012, the New Jersey Appellate Division, in the case of Des Champs Laboratories, Inc. v. NJDEP, invalidated the NJDEP’s regulation requiring an owner or operator of an industrial establishment to certify that their property is clean when applying for a De Minimus Quantity Exemption (DQE) under the Industrial Site Recovery Act…