N.J. STATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE v. HUGHEY

Nos. 85-5087, 85-5088 and 85-5095.

774 F.2d 587 (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 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 and Amy Piro, Acting Public Advocate of the State of New Jersey; New Jersey State Industrial Union Council, AFL-CIO (IUC); Citizen Action of New Jersey; Philadelphia Area Project on Occupational Safety & Health (PHILAPOSH); New Jersey Environmental Lobby; New Jersey State Firemen's Mutual Benevolent Association (FMBA); International Association of Firefighters, New Jersey AFL-CIO (IAFF); Communication Workers of America, AFL-CIO (CWA); District Three, International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Technical, Salaried and Machine Workers, AFL-CIO (IUE); International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, AFL-CIO (ILGWU); Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, AFL-CIO, Central and South Jersey Joint Board (ACTWU); United Paperworkers International Union, AFL-CIO (UPIU); Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, AFL-CIO, Locals 8-149, 8-760, and 8-5570 (OCAW); United Auto Workers Union, AFL-CIO, Local 502 (UAW); Chemical Workers Association, Inc.; Independent Oil Workers Union; Trenton Education Association; Aluminum, Brick & Glass Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, Local 514-G; Pennsylvania Federation, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, AFL-CIO; Coalition Against Toxics; League of Conservation Voters (New Jersey); Clean Water Action (Washington, D.C. and New Jersey); Student Public Interest Research Group of New Jersey (N.J. PIRG); Environmental Action (Washington, D.C.); League of Women Voters of New Jersey; Sierra Club (New Jersey); American Lung Association of New Jersey; New Jersey Tenants Organization (NJTO); New Jersey Association of County Health Officers; and New Jersey Health Officers Association, Defendant-Intervenors, FRAGRANCE MATERIALS ASSOCIATION OF the UNITED STATES, Flavor and Extract Manufacturer's Association, Bush Boake Allen, Inc., Dragoco, Inc., Firmenich, Inc., International Flavors and Fragrances, Inc., Isogenics, Inc., H.J. Kohnstamm & Co., Inc., V. Mane Files, Inc., Noville Essential Oil Company, Inc., Polarome Manufacturing Corp., Roure Bertrand DuPont, Inc., Takasago USA Inc., Ungerer & Co., and Universal Fragrance Corporation 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. Appeal of Robert E. HUGHEY, J. Richard Goldstein, M.D., and William Van Note, Appellants in No. 85-5087. Appeal of Amy PIRO, Acting Public Advocate of the State of New Jersey, et al., Defendant-Intervenors, Appellants in No. 85-5088. Appeal of NEW JERSEY STATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, et al., Appellants in No. 85-5095.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided October 10, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore M. Lieverman, Philadelphia, Pa., for amici curiae, The Hon. Mark B. Cohen, et al.

Robert W. Thomson, Debra M. Coulson, Blair S. McMillin, Reed Smith Shaw & McClay, Pittsburgh, Pa., for amici curiae, Manufacturers Ass'n of Tri-County, Appleton Papers, Inc., Ellwood City Forge Corp. and McDanel Refractory Co.

John J. Carlin, Jr. (argued), Lisa Pollak, Martin Cronin, Farrell, Curtis, Carlin & Davidson, Morristown, N.J., for N.J. State Chamber of Commerce, et al.

John P. McKenna (argued), Daniel F. Shea, McKenna & Shea, Washington, D.C., Daniel R. Thompson, Law Offices of Daniel R. Thompson, Washington, D.C., for Fragrance Materials Ass'n, et al.

Paul Bardacke, Atty. Gen., Douglas Meiklejohn, Christopher D. Coppin, Asst. Attys. Gen., Santa Fe, N.M., for amici curiae, the State of N.M. and the New Mexico Environmental Imp. Div.

Irwin I. Kimmelman, Atty. Gen. of N.J., Michael R. Cole, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Michael S. Bokar, Deputy Atty. Gen. (argued), Trenton, N.J., for defendant Robert E. Hughey, Com'r of Environmental Protection, et al.

Amy Piro, Acting Public Advocate of New Jersey, Richard A. Goldberg, Sharon A. Treat, Asst. Deputies Public Advocate, Div. of Public Interest Advocacy, Trenton, N.J., Reitman, Parsonnet, Maisel & Duggan, Sidney Reitman, Bennett D. Zurofsky (argued), Newark, N.J., Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, Jerome Balter, Philadelphia, Pa., for Amy Piro, Acting Public Advocate, et al.

Before GIBBONS and BECKER, Circuit Judges, and DIAMOND, District Judge.


OPINION OF THE COURT

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a final summary judgment in consolidated actions challenging the constitutionality of the New Jersey Worker and Community Right to Know Act, N.J.Stat.Ann. § 34:5A-1 to -31 (West 1984), which requires the disclosure of substances that may pose environmental hazards. The plaintiffs1 contend that the statute...

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