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Toxic Bones: The Burdens Of Discovering Human Remains In West Virginia's Abandoned And Unmarked Graves, J. William St. Clair, Robert Deal Dec 2020

Toxic Bones: The Burdens Of Discovering Human Remains In West Virginia's Abandoned And Unmarked Graves, J. William St. Clair, Robert Deal

West Virginia Law Review Online

This article pulls up and highlights a land use restriction, or financial burden, imposed upon West Virginia private real estate owners who inadvertently uncover human skeletal remains in unmarked graves on their property. In this state, those coming across human bones that historians and archaeologists eventually deem have no historical or archeological significance have a choice—pay the costs to have the bones removed and reinterred or cover the bones and use the property only as a cemetery in perpetuity. This burden becomes more acute when comparing West Virginia’s law to those of other states that require government officials, at public …


Populist Placemaking: Grounds For Open Government-Citizen Spatial Regulating Discourse, Michael N. Widener Dec 2018

Populist Placemaking: Grounds For Open Government-Citizen Spatial Regulating Discourse, Michael N. Widener

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Exempt Wells And Agriculture, Jesse Richardson, Iris Aloi Jan 2017

Exempt Wells And Agriculture, Jesse Richardson, Iris Aloi

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Land Tenure And Sustainable Agriculture, Jesse Richardson Apr 2016

Land Tenure And Sustainable Agriculture, Jesse Richardson

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Conservation Easements And Adaptive Management, Jesse Richardson Jul 2010

Conservation Easements And Adaptive Management, Jesse Richardson

Law Faculty Scholarship

The perpetual nature of conservation easements makes adaptive management difficult on easement property. Various easement provisions may be used to incorporate adaptive management principles into a conservation easement, but various factors, including state statutory requirements and Internal Revenue Code requirements for deductibility, limit the flexibility of management on conservation easement lands. Jesse Richardson discusses how conservation easements limit implementation of adaptive management principles on protected lands. Case studies of conservation easements that now fail to fulfill the original conservation purpose, but are locked into perpetual conservation, illustrate the limitations of conservation easements. Richardson also discusses likely future conflicts between conservation …


Use Of Motive Evidence In Judicial Review Of Rezonings, Michael Allen Dymersky, Jesse Richardson Jun 2007

Use Of Motive Evidence In Judicial Review Of Rezonings, Michael Allen Dymersky, Jesse Richardson

Law Faculty Scholarship

In this Article, Michael Allen Dymersky and Jesse J Richardson Jr examine the widespread rule of judicial review that a court should not consider evidence of motive in reviewing legislative actions by local government. They evaluate the rule in the context of a rezoning case in Highland County, Virginia, in which a group of plaintiffs conclusively established that improper motive prompted one supervisor to vote in favor of rezoning the subject property. The Highland County Circuit Court invoked the rule against judicial review of motive evidence to foreclose any consideration of the admitted improper personal motives that had inspired that …


This Land Is Whose Land? The Feasibility Of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction In West Virginia's Land Use Planning Laws, Lori Schwartzmiller Apr 2007

This Land Is Whose Land? The Feasibility Of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction In West Virginia's Land Use Planning Laws, Lori Schwartzmiller

West Virginia Law Review

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Beyond Fairness: What Really Works To Protect Farmland, Jesse Richardson Apr 2007

Beyond Fairness: What Really Works To Protect Farmland, Jesse Richardson

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Nuisance Revisited After Buchanan And Bormann, Jesse Richardson, Theodore A. Feitshans Apr 2000

Nuisance Revisited After Buchanan And Bormann, Jesse Richardson, Theodore A. Feitshans

Law Faculty Scholarship

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The Voluntary Remediation And Redevelopment Act--West Virginia Restructures Environmental Liability, M. Ann Bradley, David L. Yaussy Apr 1997

The Voluntary Remediation And Redevelopment Act--West Virginia Restructures Environmental Liability, M. Ann Bradley, David L. Yaussy

West Virginia Law Review

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Land Use Regulation And The Takings Clause: How Much Use Must An Owner Lose Before Being Entitled To Compensation Because The Government Has Taken The Property?, Patrick C. Mcginley Feb 1997

Land Use Regulation And The Takings Clause: How Much Use Must An Owner Lose Before Being Entitled To Compensation Because The Government Has Taken The Property?, Patrick C. Mcginley

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Current Issues Relating To Emergency Federal Coal Leasing, David B. Pariser Apr 1987

Current Issues Relating To Emergency Federal Coal Leasing, David B. Pariser

West Virginia Law Review

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Assessing Abandoned Mining Land Reclamation Fees On Coal, Deborah S. Colby Apr 1987

Assessing Abandoned Mining Land Reclamation Fees On Coal, Deborah S. Colby

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Keystone Bituminous Coal Association V. Debenedictis: A Regulatory Taking, Monique Van Damme Apr 1987

Keystone Bituminous Coal Association V. Debenedictis: A Regulatory Taking, Monique Van Damme

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act Of 1976 And Prior Federal Coal Leases: Putting New Wine Into Old Bottles, Michael H. Hyer Apr 1985

The Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act Of 1976 And Prior Federal Coal Leases: Putting New Wine Into Old Bottles, Michael H. Hyer

West Virginia Law Review

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Encouraging Advances In Mining And Reclamation Practices: An Analysis Of The Experimental Practices Provision Of The Surface Mining Control And Reclamation Act Of 1977, David C. Short, John R. Batt, Barbara Lovan Apr 1984

Encouraging Advances In Mining And Reclamation Practices: An Analysis Of The Experimental Practices Provision Of The Surface Mining Control And Reclamation Act Of 1977, David C. Short, John R. Batt, Barbara Lovan

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Kell V. Appalachian Power Co.: Aerial Application Of Herbicides On Utility Right-Of-Ways, Thad S. Huffman West Virginia University College Of Law Jun 1983

Kell V. Appalachian Power Co.: Aerial Application Of Herbicides On Utility Right-Of-Ways, Thad S. Huffman West Virginia University College Of Law

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Disturbing Surface Rights: What Does Reasonably Necessary Mean In West Virginia, Clinton W. Smith May 1983

Disturbing Surface Rights: What Does Reasonably Necessary Mean In West Virginia, Clinton W. Smith

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Retroactive Land Statutes--Indiana's Dormant Mineral Act Declared Constitutional, Deborah Mchenry Woodburn May 1983

Retroactive Land Statutes--Indiana's Dormant Mineral Act Declared Constitutional, Deborah Mchenry Woodburn

West Virginia Law Review

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West V. National Mines: Creation Of Private Nuisance By Use Of Public Property, Gene W. Bailey Ii Jan 1983

West V. National Mines: Creation Of Private Nuisance By Use Of Public Property, Gene W. Bailey Ii

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Agricultural Land Preservation By Local Government, Thomas R. Michael Jun 1982

Agricultural Land Preservation By Local Government, Thomas R. Michael

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Short-Notice Termination Clauses In Coal Leases: Effect On Percentage Depletion, Robert G. Lathrop Dec 1980

Short-Notice Termination Clauses In Coal Leases: Effect On Percentage Depletion, Robert G. Lathrop

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Ownership Of Coalbed Gas: United States Steel Corp. V. Hoge, Richard H. Lorensen Jun 1980

Ownership Of Coalbed Gas: United States Steel Corp. V. Hoge, Richard H. Lorensen

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


A New Program For The Management Of Federal Coal Reserves, Guy R. Martin Jun 1980

A New Program For The Management Of Federal Coal Reserves, Guy R. Martin

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Review Of The Conflict Between Community-Based Group Homes For The Mentally Retarded And Restrictive Zoning, Jane E. Reiner Apr 1980

A Review Of The Conflict Between Community-Based Group Homes For The Mentally Retarded And Restrictive Zoning, Jane E. Reiner

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Cecil D. Andrus, Secretary Of The Interior V. State Of Idaho Et Al., Patrick C. Mcginley Feb 1980

Cecil D. Andrus, Secretary Of The Interior V. State Of Idaho Et Al., Patrick C. Mcginley

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Public Use Limitation In Eminent Domain: Handley V. Cook, Donna P. Grill Dec 1979

The Public Use Limitation In Eminent Domain: Handley V. Cook, Donna P. Grill

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Protection Of Hydrologic And Land Preservation Values Under The Surface Mining Control And Reclamation Act Of 1977: A Welcome Reform, David Wooley Jun 1979

The Protection Of Hydrologic And Land Preservation Values Under The Surface Mining Control And Reclamation Act Of 1977: A Welcome Reform, David Wooley

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Preventive Law And The Negotiating And Drafting Of Coal Leases After The Surface Mining Control And Reclamation Act Of 1977, Laurence W. Hancock Jun 1979

Preventive Law And The Negotiating And Drafting Of Coal Leases After The Surface Mining Control And Reclamation Act Of 1977, Laurence W. Hancock

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Citizen Participation In The Regulation Of Surface Mining, Joshua I. Barrett Jun 1979

Citizen Participation In The Regulation Of Surface Mining, Joshua I. Barrett

West Virginia Law Review

Public participation in the regulatory process has become increasingly common in recent years, especially in environmental matters. The West Virginia Surface Mining and Reclamation Act contains a number of devices by which citizens can present their views concerning proposed strip mines and can compel enforcement of the Act's provisions. The federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, by allowing citizen access to almost every phase of the regulatory process, opens even more avenues for participation than are currently available in West Virginia and other states. An invitation to citizens to take part in these regulatory and enforcement activities …