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NEW JERSEY STATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE v. HUGHEY

Civ. A. Nos. 84-3255, 84-3892.

600 F.Supp. 606 (1985)

NEW JERSEY STATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE; Chemical Industry Council of New Jersey; New Jersey Business and Industry Association; Chemical Specialties Manufacturers Association, Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Magnesium Elektron, Inc.; CP Chemicals, Inc.; Chem-Mark, Inc.; Exxon Chemical Americas, a division of Exxon Chemical Company, a division of Exxon Corporation; Schering Corporation; Essex Chemical Corporation; Ingersoll-Rand Company; and Shell Chemical Company, a division of Shell Oil Company, Plaintiffs, v. Robert E. HUGHEY, Commissioner of Environmental Protection; J. Richard Goldstein, M.D., Commissioner of Health; and William Van Note, Acting Commissioner of Labor, and the State of New Jersey, Defendants, and Joseph H. Rodriguez, Public Advocate of the State of New Jersey, et al., Defendant-Intervenors. FRAGRANCE MATERIALS ASSOCIATION OF the UNITED STATES; Flavor and Extract Manufacture's Association; Bush Boake Allen, Inc.; Dragoco, Inc.; Firmenich, Inc.; International Flavors and Fragrances, Inc.; Isogenics, Inc.; H.J. Kohnstamm & Co., Inc.; V. Mane Fils, Inc.; Noville Essential Oil Company, Inc.; Polarome Manufacturing Corp.; Roure Bertrand Dupont, Inc.; Takasago USA, Inc.; Ungerer & Co.; and Universal Fragrance Corporation, Plaintiffs, v. William VAN NOTE, Acting Commissioner of Labor for State of New Jersey; J. Richard Goldstein, Commissioner of Health for State of New Jersey; Robert E. Hughey, Commissioner of Environmental Protection for State of New Jersey, Defendants, and Joseph H. Rodriguez, Public Advocate of the State of New Jersey, et. al., Defendant-Intervenors.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

January 3, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Farrell, Curtis, Carlin & Davidson by John J. Carlin, Jr., Lisa J. Pollak, Morristown, N.J., for plaintiffs in Civ. A. No. 84-3255.

Lawrence A. Casha by Frank C. Azzinaro, Towaco, N.J., and Daniel R. Thompson, and McKenna & Shea by John P. McKenna, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs in Civ. A. No. 84-3892.

Irwin I. Kimmelman, Atty. Gen. of N.J. by Michael S. Bokar, Deputy Atty. Gen., Trenton, N.J., for defendants in Civ. A. Nos. 84-3255 and 84-3892.

Joseph H. Rodriguez, Public Advocate by Richard A. Goldberg, Sharon A. Treat, Asst. Deputies Public Advocate, Dept. of the Public Advocate, Division of Public Interest Advocacy, Trenton, N.J., and Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa., and Reitman, Parsonnet, Maisel & Duggan by Bennett D. Zurofsky, Newark, N.J., for defendant-intervenors in Civ. A. Nos. 84-3255 and 84-3892.

DEBEVOISE, District Judge.

I. The Proceedings

These two consolidated actions challenge the New Jersey Worker and Community Right to Know Act (the "Right to Know Act"), N.J.S.A. 34:5A-1, et seq., primarily on the ground that the Act is preempted by regulations or standards promulgated under the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (the "OSH Act"),1 29 U.S.C. §§ 651, et seq. Plaintiffs further contend...

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