While Ocean City fights to stop Ocean Wind 1 from using its beaches and streets for transmission lines, Cape May County has hired a pair of attorneys to battle wind farms planned off the coast. Simultaneously, three citizens groups have filed suit in Superior Court against the New Jersey Department of Environmental Projection and the company behind the first of multiple wind projects proposed off New Jersey. Ocean Wind 1, a project by by Danish company Ørsted, could get federal approval as early as this summer for a wind farm 15 miles off the coast of Atlantic and Cape May counties that would feature as many as 98 massive wind turbines capable of generating 1,100 megawatts of power.
TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) - A plaintiff expert who cited an article from the American Cancer Society website to explain why he thought a smoker’s cancer was caused by diesel smoke was properly excluded from testifying, a New Jersey appeals court ruled, upholding the dismissal of a lawsuit by a railroad worker’s widow against Conrail.
Miriam Weg believes the road to success for Clifton students is through the ever-expanding world of technology and the local school district needs to focus its attention on the skills of the future.
TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) - A father who said he needed proprietary Rutgers University football video so his daughter could learn to be a successful strategist of the game lost his bid to obtain the tape through a freedom of information request.