Opinion ID: 3010909
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Evidence at Site 7 and its Connection with

Text: Allied's COPR Production The Turnpike points to testimony given by John Lesofski in the Exxon case that he had obtained chrome fill from a Reppenhagen, Inc. from the Allied facility and delivered it to a large-scale sewer construction project in Jersey City, where he witnessed backfilling of the pipeline. Giving the Turnpike the benefit of reasonable inferences from their assertions, the conclusion we can draw is that Lesofski witnessed the backfill of the pipeline.22 Because there appear to be at least 16 sites in the pipeline vicinity, his testimony does not establish that Allied's fill went to Site 7. _________________________________________________________________ 21. Privity or a common property interest is not required to establish a predecessor in interest relationship, rather, a shared interest in the material facts and outcome of the case will create such an interest. See Lloyd v. American Export Lines, Inc., 580 F.2d 1179, 1185-87 (3d Cir. 1978). 22. In addition, the evidence of Lesofski's testimony that has been supplied in the record is not his deposition, but, rather a reference to that testimony in one of the NJDEP Directives. 23 In the Exxon case, a trucker, Michael Pitsinos, testified that he hauled fill material for Allied, and that he delivered to the areas where sewage pipeline was being put down in Jersey City. Site 7 is within the area considered to be a Jersey City sewerage construction project. However, this site does not consist of the entire sewerage project. Further, it is not entirely clear that the material Pitsinos transported was chrome: he described the material as black sand, dirty sand. which he contrasted with the gray chrome at another site, which is referred to as the Route 440 site. A. at 1010a-18a. At no point did Pitsinos testify that he hauled this material to a Turnpike site as part of a construction project. At best, he testified that he remembered bringing a load of fill -- what kind or its origins are not clear -- to the Turnpike on behalf of Laffera Construction and that he got stuck in the mud. A. at 1018a.23