HOVSONS, INC., a New Jersey corporation; the Coalition to Save Agriculture, a New Jersey Corporation; the Coalition for the Sensible Preservation of the Pinelands, an unincorporated association; Folsom Township, a municipal corporation of the State of New Jersey; Woodland Township, a municipal corporation of the State of New Jersey, Plaintiffs,
and
Marvin F. Matlack and Shirley Ann Matlack, Pineland landowners, individually and on behalf of their minor children, Pamela and Desiree; Pineland Landowners Defense Fund, Inc., a New Jersey Corporation; Board of Education of Washington Township, a corporate entity under the laws of the State of New Jersey; and Board of Education of Woodland Township, a corporate entity under the laws of the State of New Jersey; Township of Lacey, a municipal corporation of the State of New Jersey; and Lake Lenape Land Co., a corporation of the State of New Jersey, Plaintiffs-Intervenors,
v.
The SECRETARY OF the INTERIOR OF the UNITED STATES of America, Defendant,
and
State of New Jersey; the Pine Barrens Coalition; the New Jersey Audubon Society; the Environmental Defense Fund, Inc.; the Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.; Friends of the Earth; the Sierra Club; the National Parks and Conservation Association; the American Rivers Conservation Council; and the National Wildlife Federation, Defendants-Intervenors.
United States District Court, D. New Jersey.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
July 14, 1981.
July 14, 1981.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robert V. Paschon, Paschon, Feurey & Murray, Toms River, N.J., for plaintiffs Hovsons and The Coalition to Save Agriculture.
Raymond Brown, Brown, Brown & Furst, Newark, N.J., for plaintiffs The Coalition for the Sensible Preservation of the Pinelands, Folsom Township and Woodland Township.
Joseph W. Marshall, Mid-Atlantic Legal Foundation, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs-intervenors Marvin, Shirley, Pamela and Desiree Matlack, Pineland Landowners Defense Fund, Board of Education of Washington Township, and Board of Education of Woodland Township.
George R. Gilmore, Hiering, Gilmore & Monahan, Toms River, N.J., for plaintiffs-intervenors Township of Lacey and Lake Lenape Land Co.
William W. Robertson, U.S. Atty., by Jerome B. Simandle, Asst. U.S. Atty., Trenton, N.J., for defendant Secretary of the Interior.
James R. Zazzali, Atty. Gen. by Richard M. Hluchan, Deputy Atty. Gen., Trenton, N.J., for defendant-intervenor State of New Jersey.
Matthew P. Boylan, Lowenstein, Sandler, Brochin, Kohl, Fisher & Boylan, Roseland, N.J., for defendants-intervenors The Pine Barrens Coalition and The New Jersey Audubon Society.
Lawrence D. Ross, Madison, N.J., for The Environmental Defense Fund, The Natural Resources Defense Council, Friends of the Earth, The Sierra Club, The National Parks & Conservation Assoc., The American Rivers Conservation Council and The National Wildlife Federation.
James T. B. Tripp, Environmental Defense Fund, Inc., New York City, for defendant-intervenor The Environmental Defense Fund.
United States District Court, D. New Jersey.
OPINION
ANNE E. THOMPSON, District Judge.
This case presents a challenge by a number of plaintiffs to an action taken by the Secretary of the Interior on January 16, 1981, in which he indicated his approval, pursuant to 16 U.S.C. § 471i(g)(1), of the Comprehensive Management Plan ["CMP"], for the conservation and development of that area of the State of New Jersey known as the Pinelands. In response to 16 U.S.C. § 471c and d, the State had drawn...
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