Adams v. O'Connell

How courts have described this case

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• affirming commissioner’s discretion under § 22a-208a to order plaintiff to cease operating unpermitted solid waste disposal facility and to remove all solid waste
• where joint tortfeasors cause harm to the plaintiff, they, not the plaintiff, have the burden of apportioning the liability for that harm among them
• exception exists in rare cases where statute violates due process because it is so vague that it is impossible for anyone to obey
• ‘‘[a]n agency composed of [experts] is entitled . . . to rely on its own expertise within the area of its professional compe- tence’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• under substantial evidence test, the court must defer to agency's assessment of the credibility of witnesses and its right to believe or disbelieve any witness in whole or in part
• “[t]o demonstrate that a statute is unconstitutionally vague as applied to Mm, a litigant must therefore demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that he had inadequate notice of what was proMbited or that he was the victim of arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement”

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