Petition Filed With New Jersey Court Administrator to Suppress Racially Motivated and Selective Non-Enforcement of Laws and Court Procedures

Sat Sep 29, 2007

Investors and supporters of Renaissance Broadcasting Corporation (RBC), the first African American owned company in the U.S. to be awarded a license from the FCC to "build" a television station, filed a petition with the Administrative Office of the Courts of New Jersey to suppress the selective nonenforcement of State and federal laws and court procedures to prevent African American ownership of a New Jersey-based commercial television station.

Trenton, NJ (PRWEB) September 29, 2007 -- On Friday, September 28, 2007, more than one hundred investors and supporters of Renaissance Broadcasting Corporation (RBC) presented a petition to Judge Philip S. Carchman, acting Administrative Director of the Courts of New Jersey, requesting immediate action on RBC's June 7, 2007 New Jersey Appellate Division motion, Docket Number M-006059-06. The motion seeks to nullify prior state court orders entered against RBC in a consolidated action docketed as Township of Waterford v. Renaissance Broadcasting Corporation, Docket Number A-005114-92T1. The proceedings were initiated against RBC in the Law Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Docket Number L-1116-80, on September 3, 1980. Prior appellate court judgments were entered on June 23, 1982, August 5, 1985 and May 23, 1994, respectively.

The June 7, 2007 motion alleged that the prior actions against RBC constituted a clear, 27-year violation of the equal protection of the laws clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and section 3 of the Civil Rights Act of April 20, 1871 by the State of New Jersey. The civil rights violations resulted in the loss of RBC's TV station. Governor Jon Corzine and Lisa B. Jackson, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), were named as indispensable party defendants.

The Township of Waterford's opposition to DEP's lease of land within the Wharton State Forest to RBC generated the September 3, 1980 complaint. Specifically, the municipality demanded that RBC comply with the municipality's site plan ordinance as a precondition to constructing the TV broadcasting transmission system within the Wharton State Forest. The courts entered judgments that required RBC to comply with Waterford's zoning ordinances. The municipality later claimed it had zoned the Wharton State Forest for residential use only. The courts concurred in the pretext.

The earlier judgments against RBC were based on the false judicial presumptions that the Wharton State Forest was not state-owned and regulated, municipalities have an interest in land within the Wharton State Forest and the lease agreement between DEP and RBC was "for purposes beyond the legislative purposes" of DEP.

The recent discoveries of a 1966 edition of Title 58 of the Statutes of New Jersey and special reports prepared by the New Jersey Water Resources Advisory Committee in 1957 and 1958 proved the absolute falsity of all of the prior judicial presumptions. The courts' false presumptions and judgments allowed Waterford to challenge RBC's use of the TV facilities that it constructed and put into operation and to grant a white owned company the right to use the same facilities in exchange for a payment of $450,000.

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