COVID-19 UPDATE April 17, 2020 Bruce S. Katcher and Austin W. Manning MGKF Special Alert On April 9 and 13, 2020, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) invoked its authority under Executive Order No. 103 (E.O. 103) to modify a number of the State’s rules regulating waste including the Regulated Medical […]
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Prop 65 Update: New Amendments Clarify Supply Chain Warnings – Update from Nijman Franzetti, LLP
New amendments effective April 1st under California’s Proposition 65 “Clear and Reasonable Warning” regulations (Prop 65) clarify how entities in the supply chain can satisfy their warning obligations when the ultimate retailer is uncertain. The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) now will require that the manufacturer, producer, packager, importer, […]
Court Finds Harm from Commingled Groundwater Plume Divisible Under Section 107(a) of CERCLA – Update from Manko Gold
April 17, 2020 Shoshana (Suzanne Ilene) Schiller and Zachary J. Koslap MGKF Litigation Blog It has been more than a decade since the United States Supreme Court decided Burlington Northern & S.F. R. Co. v. United States, 129 S. Ct. 1870 (2009), holding that liability under Section 107(a) of CERCLA is […]
Biobased Products News and Policy Report April 17, 2020 Federal FDA Requests Comments On Product User Fee Programs On April 6, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a report that provides options and recommendations for a new methodology to evaluate changes in resource capacity needs of human […]
NJ Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal of State’s Trespass Claim in NRD Lawsuit – Update from Manko Gold
April 15, 2020 Maria C. Salvemini, Nicole R. Moshang MGKF Litigation Blog On April 7, 2020, the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court rendered its decision in New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection v. Hess, A-2893-18T2 (N.J. Super. App. Div. Apr. 7, 2020), one of the lawsuits in which […]