A trial judge’s recent decision allowing an Atlantic County municipality to make its case against the federal government’s beach-replenishment plan may not change the complexion of New Jersey dune litigation, but it has shown that condemning authorities are not infallible.

Superior Court Judge Julio Mendez, in his Dec. 8 decision, deemed the City of Margate entitled to a hearing on whether the federal plan, which has been met with pockets of resistance up and down the Jersey Shore, is inferior to its own plan.

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