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  James Rusk is an associate with the Land Use and Natural Resources Practice Group, in the firm’s San Francisco office. [1] The 1866 Act granted private rights of way across federal lands to owners of water pipelines, ditches and canals that were used to convey water for agriculture and other beneficial uses. [read post]

Real Estate and Construction Law Blog - http://www.realestatelanduseandenvironmentallaw.com/

Legal symposium on Bessen/Meurer book on March 29

28 Mar 2008, 5:40 am

Heald of the University of Georgia has convened a symposium on James Bessen and Michael J. [read post]

IPBiz - http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/

COURT OF APPEAL LIMITS 'TEXT' REQUIREMENT FOR LOCAL REFERENDUM PETITIONS

14 Aug 2009, 12:55 pm

  Authored By: James Rusk (415) 774-3232 JRusk@sheppardmullin.com [read post]

Real Estate and Construction Law Blog - http://www.realestatelanduseandenvironmentallaw.com/

COURT OF APPEAL LIMITS 'TEXT' REQUIREMENT FOR LOCAL REFERENDUM PETITIONS

14 Aug 2009, 12:55 pm

Authored By: James Rusk (415) 774-3232 JRusk@sheppardmullin.com [read post]

Real Estate and Construction Law Blog - http://www.realestatelanduseandenvironmentallaw.com/

2nd Circuit Allows Public Nuisance Suit Against Greenhouse Gas Emitters

30 Sep 2009, 11:20 am

James Rusk is an associate in the Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental Practice Group in the firm's San Francisco office. [read post]

Real Estate and Construction Law Blog - http://www.realestatelanduseandenvironmentallaw.com/

EPA May Use Cost-Benefit Analysis In Setting "Best Technology Available" Standards Under Clean Water Act

6 Apr 2009, 3:56 pm

Uram, Ella Foley-Gannon and James Rusk On April 1st, the Supreme Court held that the federal Clean Water Act (the “Act”) allows the Environmental Protection Agency (the “EPA”) to use cost-benefit analysis in setting the performance standards that power plants must meet to reduce the impact of cooling water intakes on aquatic organisms. [read post]

Real Estate and Construction Law Blog - http://www.realestatelanduseandenvironmentallaw.com/

9th Circuit Upholds Critical Habitat Designation for Mexican Spotted Owl

22 Jun 2010, 9:20 am

Uram (415) 774-3285 RUram@sheppardmullin.com and James Rusk (415) 774-3232 JRusk@sheppardmullin.com and Alex Merritt (415) 774-3174 AMerritt@sheppardmullin.com [read post]

Real Estate and Construction Law Blog - http://www.realestatelanduseandenvironmentallaw.com/

Army Corps Properly Limited Scope of NEPA Review of Section 404 Permits to Impacts of Filling Jurisdictional Waters

10 Mar 2009, 4:40 pm

 Uram, Aaron Foxworthy, and James Rusk The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals recently reversed a District Court decision and upheld a decision by the Army Corps of Engineers (the "Corps") to prepare Environmental Assessments and mitigated FONSIs under the National Environmental Policy Act ("NEPA") for four Clean Water Act section 404 permits issued for mountaintop removal coal mining projects in West Virginia. [read post]

Real Estate and Construction Law Blog - http://www.realestatelanduseandenvironmentallaw.com/

California Supreme Court Holds Headwaters Agreement Incidental Take Permit And Sustained Yield Plan Invalid

24 Jul 2008, 12:37 am

By James Rusk The state Incidental Take Permit (the “ITP”) and the Sustained Yield Plan (the “SYP”) approved under the Headwaters Agreement of 1996, which allowed the Pacific Lumber Company (“PLC”) to log old growth redwood forests in Humboldt County, are invalid, the California Supreme Court ruled last week. [read post]

Real Estate and Construction Law Blog - http://www.realestatelanduseandenvironmentallaw.com/

The State Bar of Texas Appellate Section and the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society celebrated its Texas Appellate Hall of Fame 2019 inductees during an Advanced Civil Appellate Seminar in Austin on September 5. The award recognizes judges, attorneys, and court personnel who have made significant contributions to appellate law and who are no longer living. The 2019 inductees: Thomas J. Rusk—The third chief justice of Texas, Thomas Rusk was actually the first to preside over a Supreme Court session and authored its first opinion in 1840. Prior to his life on the bench, Rusk was a signatory to the Texas Declaration of Independence and was also the Texas Republic’s war secretary. He oversaw the burial of Col. James Fannin, who, along with his men, was executed at Goliad under orders from President Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna. Rusk led the final charge on Santa Anna at San Jacinto. Hortense Sparks Ward—When Hortense Ward passed the Texas bar exam in 1910—the first woman to do so—she set off a string of firsts. Among those milestones: the first female Texan to be licensed to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court; special chief justice of the temporary all-woman Texas Supreme Court (the first state high court of its kind in the country) of January 1925 in a case involving a trustee of a fraternal order of which the all-male Texas Supreme Court were members; and the country’s first female chief justice after being appointed to the latter by Gov. Pat Neff. The opinion issued (in a cause) has been cited numerous times by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and Texas appellate courts. John L. Hill Jr.—As the attorney general of Texas, John Hill argued before the U.S. Supreme Court five times. He served as the Texas Supreme Court chief justice from 1984 until 1988 when he resigned to lead an effort to abolish the popular election of judges in the state. Hill, who also served as the Texas secretary of state, is the only person to have held all three titles. In 1997, he received a lifetime achievement award from

6 Sep 2019, 1:14 pm by Eric Quitugua

James Fannin, who, along with his men, was executed at Goliad under orders from President Gen. [read post]

State Bar of Texas Blog - http://blog.texasbar.com/

The State Bar of Texas Appellate Section and the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society celebrated its Texas Appellate Hall of Fame 2019 inductees during an Advanced Civil Appellate Seminar in Austin on September 5. The award recognizes judges, attorneys, and court personnel who have made significant contributions to appellate law and who are no longer living. The 2019 inductees: Thomas J. Rusk—The third chief justice of Texas, Thomas Rusk was actually the first to preside over a Supreme Court session and authored its first opinion in 1840. Prior to his life on the bench, Rusk was a signatory to the Texas Declaration of Independence and was also the Texas Republic’s war secretary. He oversaw the burial of Col. James Fannin, who, along with his men, was executed at Goliad under orders from President Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna. Rusk led the final charge on Santa Anna at San Jacinto. Hortense Sparks Ward—When Hortense Ward passed the Texas bar exam in 1910—the first woman to do so—she set off a string of firsts. Among those milestones: the first female Texan to be licensed to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court; special chief justice of the temporary all-woman Texas Supreme Court (the first state high court of its kind in the country) of January 1925 in a case involving a trustee of a fraternal order of which the all-male Texas Supreme Court were members; and the country’s first female chief justice after being appointed to the latter by Gov. Pat Neff. The opinion issued (in a cause) has been cited numerous times by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and Texas appellate courts. John L. Hill Jr.—As the attorney general of Texas, John Hill argued before the U.S. Supreme Court five times. He served as the Texas Supreme Court chief justice from 1984 until 1988 when he resigned to lead an effort to abolish the popular election of judges in the state. Hill, who also served as the Texas secretary of state, is the only person to have held all three titles. In 1997, he received a lifetime achievement award from

6 Sep 2019, 1:14 pm by Eric Quitugua

James Fannin, who, along with his men, was executed at Goliad under orders from President Gen. [read post]

State Bar of Texas Blog - http://blog.texasbar.com/

How Judges, Bureaucratys and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk

25 Feb 2008, 3:28 am

In "Patent Failure; How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk," (Princeton University Press, March 2008), James Bessen and Michael J. [read post]

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