This Week on Legal Planet

Dan Farber Discusses Increasing Ocean Heat in his post, 'The Oceans Heat Up'

May 28 Comer craziness: Appellate nuisance victory overturned, despite lack of quorum (!)
Question: If an 3-judge panel on an appellate court unanimously reverses a D Ct opinion, and the full Circuit lacks a quorum to reconsider the substance… [read more]

May 27 Today’s Oil Spill News
BP is attempting the “top kill” method of stemming the leak with uncertain results as of yet.  Early results are encouraging, and we all… [read more]

May 26 “Why can’t we just make it legal?”
No, not that. The developer in the video below asks the question about building communities that feature walkable spaces, a mix of uses, and more compact… [read more]

May 26 A Two-Word Phrase Beginning with “Cluster” and Rhyming with “Luck”
There’s a classic military term for the series of foul-ups that led to the BP oil spill. [read more]

May 26 The Oceans Heat Up
Here’s the data from the latest research in Nature, courtesy of Real Climate: I’m sure that at least some economists will view this as a desirable… [read more]

May 25 Carbon Sequestration: Is There a Lesson from Offshore Drilling?
When he lifted the moratorium on new offshore leasing in July of 2008, President Bush assured us that “advances in technology have made it possible… [read more]

May 23 In Memoriam: Jamie Grodsky
We learned this weekend of the tragic death of Jamie Grodsky, a rising star in environmental law who taught at George Washington University.  She died… [read more]

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