Legal Opinion
City of Newark v. Natural Resource Council in the Department of Environmental Protection
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided May 15, 1980PublishedCited by 160 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
SCHREIBER, J.
This case concerns the long-standing and continuing dispute over claims to the ownership of New Jersey’s tidally-flowed lands. It is before us as an appeal from an Appellate Division decision upholding the validity of certain claims maps prepared by the State depicting its purported ownership of property in the Hackensack and Newark-Elizabeth meadowlands.
The maps in question were prepared by the Natural Resource Council (NRC) of the State Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) pursuant to N.J.S.A. 13:1B-13.1 et seq. That statute…
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