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A State Supreme Court punishment has cast a cloud of uncertainty over the future of fixing along the South Fork’s beachfront by abruptly dismissing a team up of lawsuits filed by the Southampton Town Trustees against Quogue Village and a pair of Dune Approach homeowners over the use of sandbags to defend against erosion.
If the resolving stands—the Trustees have said they will appeal in a jiffy—it could have far-reaching implications, as it appears, on its dial, to strip the Town Trustees of their authority to fix the placement of any kind of protective structures along the multitude beaches, at least within the borders of incorporated villages.
“It’s a big extent,” Town Trustees President Eric Shultz said of Fair play Peter H. Mayer’s ruling. “In two paragraphs, he erased three centuries of juridical history. He completely fails to acknowledge the the gen that the Trustees have an easement and the right to protect it.”
In the ruling dated May 9, Judge Mayer granted a ask for for summary judgment by the attorneys for Quogue Village and two oceanfront homeowners who buried titan sandbags under trucked-in sand dunes along the abundance beach. He ruled that the Town Trustees’ dominion does not give them jurisdiction over the beaches landward of the ill-tempered high tide mark, rather than to the crest of the dunes, as the Trustees have want claimed.
Source: 27east.com