Environmental Europe

OCTOBER 27, 2016

After decades of debate on where – and whether – to expand airport capacity in south-eastern England, the UK government announced two days ago that it would favour building a third runway at Heathrow Airport. This option, highly criticised on environmental grounds (notably due to the air pollution caused by road transport to the airport) has been presented by Prime Minister Theresa May as key to show the world that the UK is ‘open for business’ after Brexit.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The question often arises whether, in Louisiana, a party can file in the public record a “memorandum of servitude” rather than the full servitude. If the parties do that, any unrecorded provisions may not be binding on third parties. Other states’ laws may provide that recordation of such a memorandum of easement, the common law equivalent of a servitude, suffices to bind third parties to all the provisions in the unrecorded easement.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Sophisticated plaintiffs beware. In Bayou Fleet, Inc. v. Bollinger Shipyards, Inc., et al. , the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal concluded that contra non valentem, a judicially created exception to prescription, did not apply to prevent the running of prescription on a claim for wrongful conversion when the plaintiff company, the owner of a destroyed crane boom, was run by sophisticated businessmen who failed to check up on a more-than-a-million dollar asset more than once a year.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Hours before a controversial set of new reporting requirements for government contractors was set to take effect, a federal court in Texas enjoined implementation of the requirements across the country. Executive Order 13673, known as the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order, directed the Department of Labor and the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to create new rules and guidance aimed at ensuring that government contractors comply with existing federal and state labor laws.

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