Thursday, July 7, 2016

Farm roads exempt: Indian Spring Land Company v. Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Agency, part II

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I’m still coming off of the grammar- and punctuation-high from the Supreme Court’s decision in Indian Spring Land Company v. Inland Wetl...
Saturday, July 2, 2016

Sentence structure and punctuation gain their 15 minutes of fame in recent Supreme Court decision

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(begin listening to John Philip Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever, click here )    On this holiday weekend I will roll out a few pos...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Do not go gentle into that DEEP good night: Raised Bill #141: Part V – Etc.

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And the rest . . . DEEP proposes to add a soil type, “hydric,” to the statutory list that has been in effect for four decades. O...

Do not go gentle into that DEEP good night: Raised Bill #141: Part IV - Wetlands Maps

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Amendments to wetlands boundary maps: variations on a (statutory) theme DEEP proposes in section three of Raised Bill #141, click her...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Do not go gentle into that DEEP good night: Raised Bill #141: Part III: Sue your town!

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DEEP isn’t just trying to go out the back door and leave the wetlands act to the towns to deal with.   No, it is balancing bowing out wi...

Do not go gentle into that DEEP good night: Raised Bill #141: Part II

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The dismantling of the state oversight of municipal wetlands law implementation . In this post I will focus on what DEEP proposes NOT...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Do not go gentle into that DEEP good night: Raised Bill #141: Part I

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I joined the Attorney General’s Office in October 1987 and surfed the wave that brought the Commissioner of DEP into the world of superi...