Legal Opinion
Commonwealth, Office of Attorney General v. East Brunswick Township
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided August 21, 2009No. 476 M.D. 2007PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY
Judge LEAVITT.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General, Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., has commenced an action for declaratory and injunctive relief, seeking to invalidate an ordinance of East Brunswick Township. The Attorney General challenges this ordinance, enacted in 2008 and entitled “Ordinance to Assure Local Public Health and Safety During and After Land Application of Sewage Sludges” (2008 Ordinance), 1 on two principal grounds. First, he contends that the 2008 Ordinance is preempted by state statutes that regulate sewage sludge and its uses in the Commonwealth. Second, he contends that…
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