Legal News

Lawsuit Filed Over Fatal Canal Collapse
A Nevada city was negligent in the deaths of a mother and her two children who were killed when a canal collapsed last year, a lawsuit filed by a family member alleges. The lawsuit claims the city of Logan was aware of problems with the canal days before it collapsed, sending a mudslide down a [...

Environmental Watchdog Group Sues Air District
By Riya Bhattacharjee Environmental activists, community organizers and Berkeley citizens have for years pressured the air district to ask Pacific Steel--located at Second and Gilman streets--to control what they say are odors and toxic emissions harmful to human health...

Environmental Litigation in China: A Glimpse of the Future
China is set to see its first lawsuit by an environmental interest group against a government department within a month, a local judge said Thursday. On Tuesday, Qingzhen municipal people’s court in Guizhou province accepted the suit by the All-China Environment Federation, an interest group under the Ministry of Environmental Protection...

Pollution In China's Cities. The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, The Feng Shui Factor, And What's Wrong With Yantai
China Environmental Law Blog just did a post, entitled, "China's Blacklisted Cities," on a recently released environmental report from China's Ministry of Environmental Protection. The report calls out the following cities for their pollution problems: Bad Air: * Bayannur and Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia * Baiyin, Gansu * Urumqi, Xinjiang * Huanggang, Hubei Bad Water: * Hengshui and Cangzhou, Hebei * Linfen, Shanxi * Fuyang, Anhui * Tongchuan, Shaanxi * Wuwei, Gansu The report lists the...

A book you should read/ a song you should listen to
Sivacracy friend Phaedra Pezzullo has a book out called Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice (University of Alabama Press). It's won all kinds of awards and now a cool Atlanta group has recorded a song about it...

Citing Salmon, Environmental Group Pulls Out of Klamath River Agreement
Citing Salmon, Environmental Group Pulls Out of Klamath River Agreement

Suit blaming birth defects on pollution advances in U.K.
Suits seeking to pin blame for birth defect "clusters" on environmental pollution have mostly fared poorly in this country, given the typically weak nature of the epidemiological and causation evidence and the hurdles posed by Daubert and other gatekeeping methods...

Paxil Lawsuit
Paxil Claims, Lawsuits, and Injuries

Copyright Lawsuits: Critical Issues Before Filing Copyright
Federa Rule 11(b) Considerations

Vioxx Lawsuits
Vioxx personal injury suits are a seroius concern for Merck and patietns

Construction Site Accidents
Lawsuits related to accidents

Bextra Injury Risks
Bextra Increases Risk of Fatal Heart Attack

Bausch Lomb Renu Moistureloc Linked to Eye Infection Fusarium Keratiti
Contact Lens Solution Product Recall

Processing Pollution
Michigan Sugar to pay $210,000 settlement in environmental lawsuit.

Environmental Pollution
Asarco LLC pays $14 million for contamination settlements.

Power Station
Rochester Gas and Electric agrees to pay $700,000 environmental pollution settlement.

Lehman Brothers
Bankrupt, Files Chapter 11

Nevada Onion
Workers Injured, EPA Files Complaint

Red Dog Mine
Teck Cominco reaches settlement in $70 million environmental lawsuit.