Legal News

Imperiled Treasures: How Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Agency Actions Have Endangered Southwest Waters and Wildlife
New report from the National Wildlife Federation: "For thirty years the federal Clean Water Act broadly protected waters in the nation and across the Southwest. It sought, with a great deal of success, to safeguard important waters from pollution and...

More information on FWS's proposed actions on reticulated salamanders
73 Fed. Reg. 54125 / 73 FR 54125-54132 (Thursday, September 18, 2008)(DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR; Fish and Wildlife Service; 50 CFR Part 17; WS-R4-ES-2008-0082; 92210750083-B2 RIN 1018-AU85; Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Proposed Endangered ...

"State Supreme Court gives new protection to endangered species; Commercial interests may be liable for unforeseen losses of wildlife, unanimous court rules"
"State Supreme Court gives new protection to endangered species; Commercial interests may be liable for unforeseen losses of wildlife, unanimous court rules": Maura Dolan has this article today in The Los Angeles Times...

Delisting the Maguire daisy (and official citations for polar bear listing documents)
73 Fed. Reg. 28410 (Friday, May 16, 2008)(DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR; Fish and Wildlife Service; Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Proposed Removal of Erigeron maguirei From the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Plants; ...

Delisting the Brown Pelican
73 Fed. Reg. 9408- 9433 (Feb. 20, 2008) (Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-Month Petition Finding and Proposed Rule To Remove the Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) From the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife; Proposed ...

FWS finds listing of Gunnisons prairie dog is warranted, but precluded, for a significant portion of the species range
73 Fed. Reg. 6660-6684 (Feb. 5, 2008)(Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-Month Finding on a Petition To List the Gunnison’s Prairie Dog as Threatened or Endangered) SUMMARY: "We, the U...

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

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

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

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

Collection Agencies and Creditors
How to deal and stop the harassment

Health Insurers
Dictating Medical Decisions

Waters Corp
WAT

Waters Corp
401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

California Talent Agency, Be Productions, Faces Federal Class Action
California Talent Agency, Be Productions, Faces Federal Class Action

Federal Emergency Management Agency
Trailers Contain Toxic Formaldehyde Fumes

Mr. Brown Instant Coffee
Possible Melamine Contamination Prompts Canadian Agency to Issue Warning