We love Lone Pine orders. First of all, we love the name. Makes
us think of a cowboy eating beans under a scraggly tree. On the
prairie. Listening to Dolly Parton. We also love Dolly Parton, whom
we saw in concert last week here in Philadelphia. Too long a story
for this blog, but suffice it to say that a 1977 Dolly Parton
concert, just as we decided to take time off from college,
convinced us that we wanted to move to Nashville, where we knew no
one and had neither job nor place to live. Ask us about that
adventure some time – we love to tell the story.
Somewhat less romantically, as most of you know, Lone Pine
orders get their name from the landfill that was the subject of
Lore v. Lone Pine Corporation, 1986 WL 637507 (N.J. Super.
1986). The case involved plaintiffs who alleged they had suffered
personal injury and diminution of the value of their property
because of polluted waters from the nearby Lone Pine Landfill. The
court entered an order requiring plaintiffs
