Gabriel Taussig, the chief of the city's administrative law division, pointed to two Board of Health decisions that were challenged in courts and remain onthe books today: window guards on buildings with children in them and fluoridation of the city's water supply.
Hostage negotiators remained in contact with Murphy throughout the standoff, passing food and water through an upper window of the two-storey house, New Jersey State Police Colonel Rick Fuentes said on Sunday morning.