17 Thursday Mar 2016
Posted in Administrative Law, Corporate Law, Criminal Law, Elder Law, Environment Law, Immigration Law, Intellectual Property, International Law, Law Libraries, Legal Ethics, Research, Trial Tips and Techniques
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Research Guides, Pace Law School Library
http://libraryguides.law.pace.edu/index.php
Administrative Law, Bar Exam, Copyright and IP Law, Corporate, Business & Securities Law, Criminal Law and Procedure, Environmental and Energy Law, Health and Elder Law, Immigration Law, International and Foreign Law, Land Use Law, and more. Definitely worth a look. -CCE
25 Thursday Dec 2014
Posted in Environment Law, Internet, Law Libraries, Legal Directories, Legal Directory, References, Research
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Environmental Law Research Guides, PACE Law Library
Environment Law — Environmental and Natural Resources Law, HG.org Legal Resources
ResearchWire – Environmental Law on the Web, by Diana Botluk, LLRX.com
06 Saturday Sep 2014
Posted in Damages, Environment Law, Litigation, Negligence, Punitive Damages
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BP, Clean Water Act, Damages, Deepwater Horizon, Environmental Law, Gulf of Mexico, Halliburton, Judge Barbier, Oil Spill, Transocean
Ruling On The 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Well Blowout, by Sabrina I. Pacifici, BeSpacific Blog
BP has already said that it will immediately appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Among the errors BP asserts by Judge Barbier, it disagrees with the number of billions of gallons of oil that gushed into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon rig. BP is trying to stop the bleeding. Every gallon of oil that spewed into the Gulf has a price tag for damages.
BP maintains a website with its version of the facts and its commitment to safety. Its argument was not sufficient to sway Judge Barbier. Halliburton and Transocean were not hit as hard as some would have liked, but they were found to bear some of the responsibility for the disaster as well.
It will be interesting to see whether this ruling affects environmental cases, off-shore drilling, and oil and gas ventures in general in the future. -CCE
New York Times: ‘A federal judge ruled on Thursday that BP was grossly negligent in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil well blowout that killed 11 workers, spilled millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and soiled hundreds of miles of beaches. ‘BP’s conduct was reckless,’ United States District Court Judge Carl J. Barbier wrote in his sternly worded decision. Judge Barbier also ruled that Transocean, the owner of the rig, and Halliburton, the service company that cemented the well, were negligent in the accident. But the judge put most of the blame on BP, opening the way to fines of up to $18 billion under the Clean Water Act. In a 153-page, densely technical decision, Judge Barbier described how BP repeatedly ignored mounting warning signs that the well was unstable, making decisions that he says were ‘primarily driven by a desire to save time and money, rather than ensuring that the well was secure.’
12 Saturday Apr 2014
Posted in Appellate Law, District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, Environment Law, OSHA
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Environmental and Safety Law Update, General Duty Clause, Kerry Mohan, Killer Whales, Meagan Newman, OSHA, Seaworld, Seyfarth Shaw
DC Circuit Upholds OSHA Citation Against Seaworld: What Does This Mean For The Circus, Football . . . Healthcare Providers?, by Meagan Newman and Kerry Mohan, Seyfarth Shaw’s Environmental and Safety Law Update
‘When should we as a society paternalistically decide that the participants in these sports and entertainment activities must be protected from themselves – that the risk of significant physical injury is simply too great even for eager and willing participants? And most importantly for this case, who decides that the risk to participants is too high?’ This is the question posed by Judge Kavanaugh in his dissent to the Court’s opinion in SeaWorld of Florida, LLC (‘SeaWorld’) v. Thomas Perez, (No. 12-1375), issued this morning. . . .
15 Wednesday Jan 2014
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American Water Works, Bloomberg Businesweek, Charlston, Chemical Contamination, Elk River, Freedom Industries, Hill Peterson Carper Bee & Deitzler, James Peterson, Paul M. Barrett, West Virginia, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
Lawyers Aim Bigger Than Freedom Industries in West Virginia Chemical Spill, by Paul M. Barrett, Bloomberg Businessweek
In a neo-Tuscan villa in an office park near the Charleston, W. Va., airport, seven West Virginia plaintiffs’ lawyers gathered on Jan. 13 for a council of war. Chemical contamination that four days earlier had cut off tap water to 300,000 West Virginians was making its way west into Ohio. Local authorities were saying that Freedom Industries, the source of the 7,500 gallons of rogue coal-processing chemical, may not have acted swiftly to warn about the seepage. And the federal prosecutor in town sounded dead serious about a criminal investigation.
No surprise, then, that the atmosphere in the elegant conference room of Hill, Peterson, Carper, Bee & Deitzler, while businesslike, had an undertone of bellicose joy. ‘We’re looking at punitive damages, ‘piercing the corporate veil’ at Freedom Industries, and holding the water company and the chemical manufacturer liable, too,’ said James Peterson, the strategy session’s host. Dressed in a black sweatsuit and tan baseball cap, he acknowledged that he hadn’t showered in five days. Then he smiled and said: ‘Neither have a lot of other people around here, and they’re pissed.’
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