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In the March 1997 Trial News Special Focus section, I began a series of articles discussing admiralty and maritim. -
For most workers injured on the job the only legal remedy is to pursue a workers' compensation claim against thei. -
The United States Supreme Court has been called upon repeatedly in the last five years to define the limits of federal regulatory jurisdiction over wetlands, isolated waters and other non-navigable water bodies. In the latest development under the federal Clean Water Act, the Supreme Court declined to review three federal appeals court decisions that uphold broad authority for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers to regulate activities affecting tributaries and wetlands located far from, but nevertheless hydrologically connected to, traditionally navigable waters. -
The origins of the general maritime law remedy of maintenance and cure have dealt with extensively elsewhere,. -
Several years ago, the Louisiana Legislature passed Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure article 1732(6), which effect. -
All U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) nationwide permits (NWP) expired on January 21, 1997. Work already permitted under the NWP's in force prior to January 21, 1997 will be grand- fathered in. -
The United States Army Corps of Engineers ("Corps") and the regulated community have often disagreed about what types of water bodies should be regulated under Section 404(a) of the Clean Water Act ("CWA") - the so called "dredge and fill" permit section. Although all would agree that Section 404(a) subjects large, interstate, navigable bodies of water to federal regulation, there has been significant debate about whether it should extend to nonnavigable, intrastate, isolated waters. -
In the wake of the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York State and New York City have established the Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Corporation (the "LMRC") to lead the planning effort for the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site and the revitalization of Lower Manhattan. This article outlines some of the physical, economic and political challenges facing the LMRC. -
The Japanese Diet has passed amendments to the law governing lawyers to permit foreign attorneys to represent clien. -
The complexity and delays typically associated with projects with wetland issues have long challenged developers. The landscape of federal regulation changed suddenly when the Supreme Court, in Solid Waste Associates of Northern Cook County v. US Corps of Engineers, ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' policy of asserting jurisdiction over intrastate wetlands pursuant to the Migratory Bird rule was beyond its authority under the Clean Water Act of 1990.