Ballard Spahr litigator John H. Estey, Chairman of the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, tells The Philadelphia Inquirer that a recent ruling in favor of deepening a stretch of the Delaware River "is great news for tens of thousands of families whose livelihoods depend on Philadelphia-area ports and for the taxpayers who will reap the economic benefits of the deepening." The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was cleared to deepen a 102.5-mile portion of the river when U.S. District Judge Sue L. Robinson on January 27 denied a request by Delaware's Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to block the dredging. (The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Port Authority were successfully represented by Mr. Estey's colleagues Harry Weiss, Glenn L. Unterberger, Beth Moskow-Schnoll, Adrian R. King, Sean J. Bellew, Marlene S. Gomez, Ronald M. Varnum, and Robert J. Clark.)