Marzulla Law Blog
Marzulla Law Intern Spotlight: Marie Brazeau
Marie Brazeau is from Holyoke, Massachusetts and is a junior at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, Massachusetts. Marie will graduate with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science in December 2021. After graduating Marie plans on exploring graduate...
God, Justice, and the Just Compensation Clause
In 2017, Hurricane Harvey struck Houston with an Old Testament vengeance, and many homes and properties in Harris County, Texas were destroyed by flooding. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had erected two dams to mitigate downstream flooding, but in the wake of the...
Courthouse Steps Preview: United States Forest Service v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association
The use of eminent domain for construction of gas pipelines across private property has spawned a number of significant cases. Next Monday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in two pipeline cases involving several other thorny legal issues. Check out this...
Taking Control of Mississippi River Flows
In 1954, the United States Army Corps of Engineers advised Congress of an impending economic catastrophe likely to result if the Government did not try to channel flows back into the lower Mississippi River that had been increasingly diverting into the Atchafalaya...
Taking Down a Diseased Tree on Sagamore Hill
The Sagamore Hill National Historic Site in Oyster Bay, New York is the former home of the twenty-sixth President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. Sagamore Hill is now maintained by the National Park Service. In March 2019, Looks Great Services, Inc. put in a...
Fifth Circuit Orders Fish & Wildlife to Reconsider Its Denial of Delisting Petition
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ordered the Fish & Wildlife Service to reconsider its rejection of a petition to remove the Texas golden-cheeked warbler from the endangered species list, holding that FWS’s decision was arbitrary and capricious....
January 23-25, 2010 ALI CLE Eminent Domain Conference
They’re coming for your water! If you want to hear more about your water rights and taking, please join me and my esteemed colleagues, Hertha Lund and Charles McFarland, next Thursday when we will be discussing the increased pressure for governmental entities to take...
Student Loan Debt—Pay Up
Faith Nelson took out $5,000 in educational loans, one for $2,500 in 1982 and the other for $2,500 in 1985. Nelson claimed that she had paid off both loans by May 21, 1986. But the Missouri Department of Higher Education disagreed and began garnishing her state and...
Which Way to the Ark?
At 11:30 p.m. on September 13, 2013, in Larimer County, Colorado, in response to a slow-moving cold front dropping record amounts of rainfall, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation opened the flood gates of the Olympus Dam, which Reclamation controls and operates as part of...
Federal Circuit Announces Expanded Federal Indian Trust Responsibilities
Just as the Department of the Interior thought that its Indian trust responsibilities were drawing to a close after the resolution of the massive Cobell Indian trust litigation, the Federal Circuit today opened up the flood gates to a whole new area of government...