- The Journal has more on the lawsuit filed by former Jersey City Parking Authority head Mark Russ that alleges Mayor Healy wrongfully terminated him after he failed to obey orders not to issue tickets after 6 pm.
- Speaking of the Parking Authority, it is not enforcing meter rules or alternate side parking rules until [...]
- Former Parking Authority director Mark Russ alleges in a lawsuit that Mayor Healy ordered Russ not to issue tickets after 6 pm to curry favor with voters during Healy’s re-election campaign, and had the parking official fired when a few of his officers violated the illegal order. (Story from Courthouse News is no longer [...]
- A Costa Rican woman who is wanted for murder in that country, but was arrested in the U.S. last year, has filed a federal lawsuit over negligent health services at the Hudson County jail, where she remains as she awaits extradition to stand trial. The woman alleges she didn’t have access to a doctor [...]
In 2005, the Port Authority opened a $12.5 million entrance to the Grove Street PATH station. But to the disabled and accessibility advocates, the addition was missing one key component: an elevator. Now one Jersey City resident and local nonprofits are fighting in court for better accommodations.
- With just one day to go before the gubernatorial and state Assembly election, Hudson County Democrats and Republicans are working on a major get out the vote push. Politicker also has a look at the state of the Hudson County Democratic Organization as it gets ready to get out the vote for Gov. Corzine [...]
In early August, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) filed an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request to find out more information about the process the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has been guided by in choosing representatives for its new Science Advisory Board.
The DEP denied PEER’s request, claiming that almost all the requested [...]
- The woman who gave birth to a stillborn boy whose body was discarded with the trash at Christ Hospital last December has filed a lawsuit against the hospital and several of its employees. The suit alleges the delivery room doctor “deviated from the standard practices of medicine” and that the hospital fraudulently concealed evidence [...]
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Jersey City is suing Colgate-Palmolive Co. for $1.1 million over payments related to the famed Colgate clock on the bank of the Hudson River.
In court papers filed April 16 in Superior Court, the city says Colgate moved the clock to city land in 1997 and in 2005 promised to pay Jersey City a [...]
- Interstate Waste Services has filed a lawsuit alleging the Hudson County Improvement Authority violated local public contract laws when it awarded the county’s garbage disposal contract to Advance Enterprise, the second lowest bidder.
- The family of a woman who died last year in Hudson County jail is seeking answers about her death — but [...]
- Jersey City’s Sustainable Cities Conference was yesterday morning, and keynote speaker Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talked about energy independence, namely a national smart grid, which the federal stimulus package just funded to the tune of $11 billion — far short of the $150 billion Kennedy says it will eventually cost. A smart grid is [...]
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