Quote of the Day: We were just about to do that

by: Jason Springer

Thu Dec 18, 2008 at 09:22:59 PM EST

An appellate judge has thrown out a $4,000 bill submitted to the Sierra Club and Hartz Mountain Industries by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority to pay for documents related to a lengthy legal battle by the groups.

The environmental group and the Secaucus-based developer had been asked to pay $1 per page for a 4,297-page appendix that the sports authority submitted to the court. The Sierra Club and Hartz had sued over the sports authority's approval of filling in 8 acres of wetlands at the site of the Xanadu entertainment and retail project.

"We were about to drop the request anyway," sports authority spokesman John Samerjan said. "We thought it was the right thing to just let it go and move forward."