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Thomas R. Bender, who blogs on Nuisance Law, recently posted an article entitled Pollution vs. Lawful Product: Nuisance vs. Non-Nuisance, which clarifies some nuances and distingushing characteristics between the Rhode Island Supreme Court's decision in Rhode Island v. Lead Industries Association and the Supreme Court of Canada's recent decision in St. Lawrence Cement Inc. v. Barrette. A November 22 ClassActionBlawg entry [...]

... Assistant Professor, Catholic. Charleston School of Law: Kristin Balding Gutting, JD, St. Louis University, 2000. LLM, University of Florida, 2001. Visiting Assistant Professor ... Kent. JD, Yale, 1999. Climenko Fellow, Teaching Fellowship, Harvard. Kimani Paul-Emile. JD, Georgetown, 1996. PhD, American Studies, New York University, ... P. Cummings. JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 2000. Washington University (St. Louis): Carl Minzner. JD, Columbia, 2000. Masters of International Affairs, Columbia ...

Thomas Berg (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN - School of Law) has posted Religious Organizational Freedom and Conditions on Government Benefits (Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: More and more legal disputes about church and state in the coming years will involve conditions on government benefits - social services grants, educational vouchers, tax exemptions - that conflict with the ...

... a citizens' organization based in upstate New York - in an effort to stop the proposed construction of a series of wind-powered generators by St. Lawrence Windpower, LLC. According to WPEG, the project is one of a four wind projects that, if completed, will "create ... to vanish. This pattern is called the "Not In My Back Yard" syndrome or in short just the NIMBY syndrome (Paul Gipe, 1995). The basic theory is that people support wind energy on an abstract level but object to specific local projects ...

... Bullied,' Chairman Says, Augusta Chronicle (Jul. 10, 2002). Class #9 Intimate Relationships Loving v. Virginia (1967); Lawrence v. Texas (2003); Pamela S. Karlan, Loving Lawrence, 102 Mich. L. Rev. 1447 (2004); Laurence H. Tribe, Lawrence v. Texas: The "Fundamental Right" That Dare Not Speak Its Name, 117 Harv. L. Rev. 1893 ( ... 2d 335, 340, 341-343 (2006); Patrick J. Smith, Solomon's Mines, 79 St. John's L. Rev. 689 (2005). Class #11 Depictions of Illiberal Groups in Popular ...

... Law School, Visiting Assistant Professor Boston University, Associate in Law Columbia University [Name withheld by request] St. Louis University Jeff Redding, JD 2000 University of Chicago, Research Fellow Yale University Suffolk University ... Yale University, Visiting Assistant Professor Northwestern University, Visiting Assistant Professor Florida Coastal University Paul Stancil, JD 1996 University of Virginia, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois University of Kentucky Scott ...

... Law School, Visiting Assistant Professor Boston University, Associate in Law Columbia University [Name withheld by request] St. Louis University Jeff Redding, JD 2000 University of Chicago, Research Fellow Yale University Stanford University ... Yale University, Visiting Assistant Professor Northwestern University, Visiting Assistant Professor Florida Coastal University Paul Stancil, JD 1996 University of Virginia, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois University of Kentucky Scott ...

... to Draw More Water From the Great Lakes," quoted in this Aug. 12, 2005 ILB entry. Today the Minneapolis-St. Paul StarTribune reports: Minnesota is poised to become the first of eight states to approve a new Great Lakes Compact, a ... interstate and international agreement that would restrict additional large diversions of water out of the watershed emptied by the lakes and the St. Lawrence River. The state Senate gave preliminary approval to the compact on a voice vote Monday and is expected to vote ...

... substantive due process, the U.S. Supreme Court was cautious in Washington v. Glucksberg but bold in Lawrence v. Texas. Moreover, two similar partial birth abortion cases reached opposite results. On ... it was using strict scrutiny but was actually deferential in upholding the law school's affirmative action plan. The Court's hate speech decision, R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, announced that certain categories of previously unprotected expression could sometimes receive protection. Other examples ...

... of a Stanford professor in the 1970's (the Streleski case)? *** In passing, The Law Firm Of Michael R McKenna is located on the 38th floor at 500 W Madison St. ***CBS channel 2 identified the victims: The victims have been identified as attorneys Michael R. McKenna and Allen J. Hoover, law firm employee Paul Goodson and McKenna's paralegal Ruth Zak Leib (Leib was shot in the foot and survived).