A case of art imitating bureaucracy
Author: Brian T. Hodges Full disclosure: I am a huge fan of the TV series Breaking Bad. For the uninitiated, this show chronicles the downward spiral of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling...
View ArticleAre environmental law and the rule of law in conflict?
In his best known work The Morality of Law, legal philosopher Lon Fuller identified the conditions that must be satisfied for any legal system to comply with the rule of law. Among other things, rules...
View ArticlePLF A.B. 32 legal challenge to be highlighted at American Bar Association...
On Friday, August 9, 2013, I’ll be speaking to lawyers from around the nation converging at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association in San Francisco, regarding PLF’s legal challenge to...
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The lesson of the Animas River spill
By Riverhugger (Own work), via Wikimedia Commons In the Wall Street Journal, attorney and former high-ranking EPA official Bill Wehrum has an op-ed [$] arguing that the Animas River spill shouldn’t...
View ArticleHas the pit bull of environmental law been spayed?
The Endangered Species Act has often been called the “pit bull of environmental law” because “[i]t’s short, compact and has a hell of a set of teeth. Because of its teeth, the act can force people to...
View ArticleIs environmental law an ass?
No, according to a decision from the Second Circuit issued this week. In Friends of Animals v. Clay, a radical animal rights group challenged a federal permit to take migratory birds that pose a risk...
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The Center for Biological Diversity goes batty
Photo courtesy of FWS The Center for Biological Diversity is threatening to sue the Fish & Wildlife Service for not imposing ruinous and unnecessary restrictions on private property owners...
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Opposition to transfer venue filed in jaguar critical habitat case
As our regular readers will know, PLF is representing three New Mexico organizations—New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association, and New Mexico Federal Lands...
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California Court of Appeal imposes public trust obligations on groundwater...
Show me on the picture where activity will have no impact on the river. This morning a California Court of Appeal issued an unfortunate opinion (although given the state of California courts, perhaps...
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