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1972

Cleveland State University

Environmental Law

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Electric Transmission Lines And The Environment, Alan P. Buchmann Jan 1972

Electric Transmission Lines And The Environment, Alan P. Buchmann

Cleveland State Law Review

One of the significant outgrowths of the current interest in "environmental" questions is the increasing prominence of aesthetics qua aesthetics as a subject for judicial and administrative concern. A major area of litigation, and one which has by its very nature lent itself to an analysis of the significance, and viability, of purely "aesthetic" issues, has involved high voltage transmission lines.


Qui Tam Actions For Citizen Enforcement Of The Refuse Act Of 1899 Against Polluters, J. S. Ott Jan 1972

Qui Tam Actions For Citizen Enforcement Of The Refuse Act Of 1899 Against Polluters, J. S. Ott

Cleveland State Law Review

It may be possible for private citizens to enforce the Refuse Act of 1899 when prosecutors refuse to act. This is possible, proponents suggest, by applying the ancient theory of qui tam to criminal sanctions in the Refuse Act. So far, the scheme has met with no reported judicial approval. ...The court again recognized in 1943 that "qui tam suits have been frequently permitted by legislative action . . . ."" A number of Federal statutes authorize qui tam action by the common informer.12 As late as 1970, the Hudson River Fisherman's Association was granted $2,000, under the 1899 Rivers …