Commissioner of Environmental Protection v. Connecticut Building Wrecking Co.

The principal issue in these consolidated appeals is the constitutional necessity of a jury trial in an environmental enforcement action. The trial court rendered judgment in these three environmental actions, which had been consolidated for trial, against the defendants, Connecticut Building Wreck*177ing Company, Inc. (CBW), and Geno Capozziello and Russell Capozziello,1 and in favor of the plaintiff, the commissioner of environmental protection (commissioner). The defendants appealed from the judgment of the trial court to the Appellate Court, and we transferred the appeals to this court…