by Nancie Marzulla | Jul 21, 2022
On July 18, 2022, First Circuit Judge Kayatta, appointed to the bench in 2013 by President Obama, issued a robust rejection of the Puerto Rico Financial Oversight and Management Board’s argument, supported by the U.S. Justice Department, that it could discharge...
by Nancie Marzulla | Jun 16, 2022
To address the routine flooding that occurs in the Mississippi Delta, in the 1940s the federal government built the Yazoo Backwater Project—a levee system designed to protect portions of Issaquena County, Misssissippi, near the confluence of the Mississippi and Yazoo...
by Nancie Marzulla | Jun 7, 2022
Following the devastating flooding of hundreds of privately owned properties in an area on the western edge of Houston, Buffalo Bayou, caused by flood control actions of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in response to Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey, the flooded...
by Nancie Marzulla | May 25, 2022
At the height of the Covid pandemic, with its widespread lockdowns to prevent the spread of infection, the Center for Disease Control put in place a nationwide residential eviction moratorium. In response, 38 landlords and rental property owners, Darby Development...
by Nancie Marzulla | Mar 31, 2022
In 2015 Hahnenkamm, LLC agreed to sell a 39.25-acre tract of land overlooking Lake Tahoe in Nevada to the U.S. Forest Service for $5.03 million. Soon after the sale, Hahnenkamm began to suspect that the sale price, which was supposed to be based on an independent,...