Environmental Law

EPA Issues Final Yucca Mountain Radiation Standards
Follow up to previous postings related to Yucca Mountain spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste disposal facility, from EPA...

Liability for Scrapping Yucca Mountain Could Run In the Billions
A Justice Department official told a House panel that the costs of defending the administration's decision to abandon the Yucca Mountain disposal plan could run as high as $13 billion.

Fight Over Yucca Mountain Site Moves to NRC
Litigation over Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste disposal site continued its roller-coaster ride this week when the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board rejected the Department of Energy's move to stop the Nevada project, and, a day later, the Nuclear...

Energy Department Delays Yucca Mountain Shutdown
As litigation over the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility heats up, the U.S. Department of Energy announced yesterday that it would postpone shutting down the facility for 21 days...

Arkansas Lethal Injection Litigation - Eighth Circuit Panel Lifts Stays
"Court lifts Johnson?s stay of execution," is the title of the AP report via the Texarkana Gazette. A federal appeals court on Friday lifted stays of execution for two Arkansas inmates, one of them scheduled to be put to death...

Schulz: Yucca Mountain Is Not Dead
Dont listen to Harry Reid. The controversial nuclear-repository project hasnt been killed yet.

How to Stop Home Foreclosure
Bankruptcy can Stop Foreclosure

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Hartz Mountain
Recalls Chicken-Basted Rawhide Chips for Dogs

Medical Records
To Stay out of Pharma's Hands

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

Tomato Salmonella
Sheetz Convenience Stores agrees to confidential out-of-court settlement with food poisoning victim.

National Association of Realtors
Settlement reached in broker listing antitrust lawsuit, pending court approval.