by Nancie Marzulla | Feb 19, 2020
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...
by Marco Marzulla | Mar 5, 2019
Cindy Lopez is one of our law clerks for the Spring 2019 semester, and she is from Vineland, New Jersey. Cindy graduated from the University of Maryland in May 2016. She majored in Criminology and Criminal Justice and minored in Public Leadership. Cindy is currently a...
by Nancie Marzulla | Mar 4, 2019
As previously reported, in 2013 Otay Mesa Property, L.P. sued the U.S. Department of Interior in federal district court for the District of Columbia, arguing that designating 57 acres of their commercial property in San Diego County as critical habitat for the...
by Nancie Marzulla | Mar 4, 2019
Efforts are underway to streamline the notoriously costly and time-consuming environmental review process under the National Environmental Policy Act. On average it takes 4.5 years to complete an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) required under the NEPA, not...
by Nancie Marzulla | Jan 28, 2019
During his three decades on the Supreme Court, Justice Kennedy often provided the crucial swing vote in the Court’s major Fifth Amendment takings decisions. Justice Kennedy thus played a pivotal role in developing modern takings law. Emergence of modern takings law...
by Nancie Marzulla | Jan 28, 2019
One of the latest casualties out of the Federal Circuit is the May 7, 2018 decision in Love Terminal Partners, L.P., and Virginia Aerospace, L.P. v. United States, No. 16-2276, authored by Judge Dyk, which reversed a decision by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims...
