He has advised on the tax consequences of marquis antitrust, civil rights and wrongful conviction cases, SEC restitution, and environmental contamination litigation.
During 2011, five of nine large solar projects approved the prior year by state and federal regulators in time to qualify for federal loan guarantees became entangled in environmental impact litigation.
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The buyer also needs to evaluate all corporate aspects, from labor and environmental to pending litigation, to taxes and public records.
The onslaught of petitions triggered a vicious circle of litigation with environmental groups as the government inevitably missed deadlines to make decisions on listing petitions.
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The Border Patrol is moving forward with plans to add a second fence there as well as along the last 3.5 miles to the ocean, which had been held up by years of litigation over environmental concerns.
One possible new territory where preemption is not a big problem is litigation over environmental debacles. (Witness the recent extraction of money from gasoline refiners who damaged groundwater with a federally approved additive.) The tort mavens also talked about switching to securities law, a field not especially starving for practitioners.
Mr. JOHNSON: We're going to get more environmental benefits than we would get through enforcement and lengthy litigation, and our focus is on delivering environmental results.
As the world increasingly embraces the mantra of green products and services, the legal community is encountering a proliferation of litigation surrounding false and misleading environmental marketing claims.
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In the process, these Members have already provided another boost for environmental "lawfare" that will likely encourage similar litigation in the future.
Ohio state officials deny that the ownership litigation is a mere pretext for what is really an environmental case.
For starters, he asked his Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell to join with AGs of 13 other states who filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with EPA on August 10, 2012, asking for any and all correspondence between EPA and a list of 80 environmental, labor union and public interest organizations that have been party to litigation since the start of the Obama administration.
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"There's going to be litigation, you can bet your bottom dollar, " notes Kevin Healy, an environmental attorney in the New York office of law firm Bryan Cave.
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