Vermont Law

AUGUST 7, 2018

WHEN COURTS MEET NATURE. A REAL CASE ON RIGHTS OF NATURE. Hugo Echeverría – Environmental Lawyer*. Ecuador. UN CASO. SUI GENERIS. Ocurrió en Ecuador, entre 2012 y 2015. Ocurrió en una zona remota y fronteriza; una zona marcada por conflictos socioambientales, en la que la aplicación de la ley constituye un desafío diario. Allí, en una corte de justicia ecuatoriana se discutía un caso. sui generis. : la permanencia de una camaronera dentro de un área natural protegida.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

In a case sure to be used as a sword by many defendants in the prevalent NORM (naturally occurring radioactive material) litigation in Louisiana and elsewhere, Patricia Lennie, et al. v. Exxon Mobil Corporation, et al., the Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal concluded that plaintiffs’ survival and wrongful death actions were prescribed when plaintiffs brought suit almost four years after the diagnosis of cancer and subsequent death of their husband/father and failed to inquire as to the cau

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Environmental Science

AUGUST 7, 2018

Along with chemistry and biology , physics completes the trinity of the original “hard” sciences - those that use testable predictions and hypotheses, experiments, and mathematics and modelling as opposed to the “soft” sciences which use more qualitative data and which relies far less on testing. What is Physics? All of our modern sciences take their names from ancient Greek.

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