Stephen Hankin

March 04, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal

Where fabrication or withholding of evidence has a meaningful connection to a prosecution, conviction and incarceration, an independent cause of action now exists under § 1983 for deprivation of substantive due process under the Fourteenth Amendment, despite the existence of probable cause.

By Stephen Hankin

7 minute read

February 28, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal

Anyone in New Jersey can bring an action to stop environmental harm, by using the Environmental Rights Act. Here's how to do it.

By Stephen Hankin

9 minute read

March 21, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

By Stephen Hankin

3 minute read

December 29, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

The burdens lawyers face in overcoming the standard governing discovery extension motions teach us the need to pursue discovery diligently, especially in heavily contested matters where adversarial cooperation is unlikely.

By Stephen Hankin

7 minute read

November 23, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

Both Congress and New Jersey have recognized the benefit to disabled persons of having domestic pets in public and private residential settings.

By Stephen Hankin

8 minute read

July 14, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

A number of New Jersey communities have enacted ordinances requiring planning board approval for otherwise zoning-compliant detached single-family homes and duplexes based upon topography, vegetation, drainage, lighting, landscaping, screening, driveway and parking space location and for the protection and conservation of soil from erosion.

By Stephen Hankin

7 minute read

March 15, 2002 | Law.com

It is difficult to imagine that a heavily intense, 24-hour operation such as a Dunkin` Donuts could rely on a prior owner`s use variance for a mom and pop grocery store in a residential zone � that was granted 40 years ago � without the need for a further use variance, simply because they happen to be similarly categorized uses under the local zoning ordinance. However, municipalities should prepare themselves for just such a scenario.

By Stephen Hankin

17 minute read

July 08, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

This article focuses upon the validity of municipal ordinances which require planning board approval for site plan aspects of individual single family homes or duplexes, whether enacted under a municipality's general police power or by means of municipal zoning authority.

By Stephen Hankin

8 minute read

June 22, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

This article discusses a condominium buyer's right of rescission where a developer has failed to qualify for what has been dubbed as the improved lot exemption under the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act.

By Stephen Hankin

8 minute read

March 21, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

The issues with oral contracts in real estate transactions

By Stephen Hankin

8 minute read