Lawsuit

A local educator is taking the city to court looking to toss an upcoming public ballot question about switching to an appointed school board in place of the currently elected one.

The developer of Lincoln Harbor is taking the town to court over an ordinance they claim retroactively limits building heights and adds public parking requirements to a redevelopment agreement.

The wine and burger chain has taken the mall’s owners to court, claiming that facility upgrades and a planned development expansion have created a “ghost town” near their restaurant.

Newark filed a lawsuit saying that New York City is violating interstate commerce rules by coercing families to sign leases for illegal and uninhabitable apartments.

A developer sued after their plans for the 'Hudson Yards West' project in Union City were denied. Now, as part of a tentative settlement between the city and the developer, the Union City Planning Board is expected to hear a revised application.

Jersey City’s mayor says a legal settlement should end a long-running feud over an elevated freight line, an eight-acre portion of which would be converted into greenspace if the deal goes through.

A company who agreed to manage the group of restaurants claims that current ownership lied to them about their problems.

The city council approved an agreement that exchanges development rights at their public works facility for a pier on 15th Street.

The same two landowners that derailed the first Hilton agreement have sued the city again, this time claiming a giveback payment from the hotel’s developer “amounts to a slush fund.”

The lawsuit claims developers of neighboring parcels "have met secretly with JCRA to reach an agreement [that would] appoint Hampshire and Boraie as Redeveloper of certain PPG Properties."