Author: Reed Hopper The New York Times praises the Administration for proposing new Clean Water Act guidelines that the Times says will restore "vital legal safeguards" to "millions of acres of wetlands and thousands of miles of streams" threatened by … Continue reading
Author: Damien M. Schiff That's a question that I and my colleague Joshua Thompson are seeking to answer in a draft law review article that we've just posted on the Legal Scholarship Network, entitled California Standing Doctrine: The Enigma Explained. … Continue reading
Author: Damien M. Schiff When President Obama approved Congress's budget for 2011 a few weeks ago, he also signed into law a budget rider that legislatively removed most of the Northern Rockies distinct population segment of gray wolf from the … Continue reading
Author: Deborah J. La Fetra The United States Supreme Court today ensured that consumers will continue to be able to enter into contracts with companies to arbitrate any future disputes that will arise. Individual consumer arbitration speedily resolves disputes in … Continue reading
Author: Damien M. Schiff Earlier this month, the National Marine Fisheries Service designated about 3,000 square miles of aquatic habitat as critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act for Cook Inlet distinct population segment of beluga whale. The designation is … Continue reading
Author: Deborah J. La Fetra The United States Supreme Court heard oral argument today in ??Sorrell v. IMS Health, on the issue of whether a Vermont law that prohibits pharmacies from selling prescription data to data mining companies that then … Continue reading
Author: Damien M. Schiff As part of an unfortunate pattern, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed an expanded critical habitat designation, under the Endangered Species Act, for the western snowy plover, a small coastal bird. In 1999, the Service … Continue reading