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Table Of Contents

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Global Warming & Common Law Tort Claims: Did The Fifth Circuit Open Up Pandora's Box. Comer V. Murphy Oil Usa, Thomas C. Smith Jun 2010

Global Warming & Common Law Tort Claims: Did The Fifth Circuit Open Up Pandora's Box. Comer V. Murphy Oil Usa, Thomas C. Smith

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Washing Machines, Water Efficiency, And Federal Preemption: California's Quest To Regulate Water Consumption Under The Epca. California Energy Commission V. Department Of Energy , Kameron M. Lawson Jun 2010

Washing Machines, Water Efficiency, And Federal Preemption: California's Quest To Regulate Water Consumption Under The Epca. California Energy Commission V. Department Of Energy , Kameron M. Lawson

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Decades Of Uncertainty End With Error. Entergy Corp. V. Riverkeeper, Inc., Aaron Sanders Jun 2010

Decades Of Uncertainty End With Error. Entergy Corp. V. Riverkeeper, Inc., Aaron Sanders

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Interpreting The Wilderness Act Of 1964, Gordon Steinhoff Jun 2010

Interpreting The Wilderness Act Of 1964, Gordon Steinhoff

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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The Times Are They A-Changin'?: What Kivalina Says About The State Of Environmental "Political Questions." Native Village Of Kivalina V. Exxonmobil Corp. , Michael A. Moorefield Jun 2010

The Times Are They A-Changin'?: What Kivalina Says About The State Of Environmental "Political Questions." Native Village Of Kivalina V. Exxonmobil Corp. , Michael A. Moorefield

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Environmental Law Updates Jun 2010

Environmental Law Updates

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Ensuring The Ethical Representation Of Clients In The Face Of Excessive Caseloads, Peter A. Joy Jun 2010

Ensuring The Ethical Representation Of Clients In The Face Of Excessive Caseloads, Peter A. Joy

Missouri Law Review

This Article is divided into three substantive parts. First, I begin with a short discussion of the most important criminal justice right guaranteed to each of us under the Bill of Rights - the Sixth Amendment right to assistance of counsel. For most Americans, the right to counsel is obtained through indigent defense providers, and the quality of the representation is inextricably tied to three lesser known rights, or perhaps wishes, found in the Public Defender Bill of Rights: "[t]he right to meaningful, weighted caseload standards"; "[t]he right to judges who understand my [the public defender's] role in the [justice] …


Role Of Individuals Discrimination In Free Exercise Claims: Putting Iqbal In Its Place, The, Leila Mcneill Jun 2010

Role Of Individuals Discrimination In Free Exercise Claims: Putting Iqbal In Its Place, The, Leila Mcneill

Missouri Law Review

Ashcroft v. Iqbal has been widely discussed for three reasons: (1) its extension of Twombly's pleading standard to cases outside the realm of antitrust suits, (2) its application of the collateral order doctrine to a district court order denying an official's motion to dismiss on the basis of qualified immunity in a Bivens claim, and (3) its implication for national security and postSeptember 11th terrorist detainments and investigations. However, Iqbal also implicates the nature of what constitutes unconstitutional religious discrimination under the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause. Therefore, the Iqbal Court's discussion of religious liberty will present problems of interpretation …


Protecting The Innocent: Part Of The Solution For Inadequate Funding For Defenders, Not A Panacea For Targeting Justice, Robert P. Mosteller Jun 2010

Protecting The Innocent: Part Of The Solution For Inadequate Funding For Defenders, Not A Panacea For Targeting Justice, Robert P. Mosteller

Missouri Law Review

In this Article, I examine an important connection between society's concern with innocence - fueled by numerous wrongful convictions revealed by newly available DNA testing - and past and future progressive changes in criminal justice practices and policy. In Why Defense Attorneys Cannot, But Do, Care About Innocence (Caring About Innocence), I argued that, while the drive to protect the innocent has the potential to divide progressives in their support of indigent defense if targeting reforms only at the innocent is seen as possible, concern for innocence should instead drive a renewed effort to secure adequate funding for representing all …


Ethical Obligations Of Indigent Defense Attorneys To Their Clients, Phyllis E. Mann Jun 2010

Ethical Obligations Of Indigent Defense Attorneys To Their Clients, Phyllis E. Mann

Missouri Law Review

This Article is a basic introduction to the provision of indigent defense services in state courts throughout the country and the ethical obligations of the attorneys who provide those services. First, the Article briefly quantifies what currently exists in our right to counsel systems - what we know, and what we do not know. The Article then discusses the rules that generally govern the ethics of representation provided by indigent defense attorneys. Third, the Article examines the measures by which attorneys can know whether they are fulfilling and will continue to fulfill their ethical obligations. Finally, the Article discusses the …


Missouri's Public Defender Crisis: Shouldering The Burden Alone, Sean D. O'Brien Jun 2010

Missouri's Public Defender Crisis: Shouldering The Burden Alone, Sean D. O'Brien

Missouri Law Review

Though this Article criticizes the quality of defense provided by overburdened defenders, it is written with the hope that adequate resources may one day make it possible for them to perform their vital function effectively. Public defenders perform socially and legally significant work every day. They are not to blame when the conditions under which they labor make it impossible to do their jobs. To fix this broken system, Missouri must first understand the scope and roots of the problem. Part II of this Article discusses Missouri's reluctant implementation of right to counsel since Gideon v. Wainwright and the State's …


Legal Representation For The Poor: Can Society Afford This Much Injustice, Stephen B. Bright Jun 2010

Legal Representation For The Poor: Can Society Afford This Much Injustice, Stephen B. Bright

Missouri Law Review

A New Yorker cartoon depicts a lawyer facing his client, asking the critical question: "You've got a pretty good case, how much justice can you afford?" Of course, the promise is equal justice for all. But that is an aspiration, not reality. The poor person accused of a crime cannot afford any justice. So how much justice is society going to provide? Competent counsel for the accused, with the resources needed for investigation and consultation with experts, is essential for the proper working of our adversary system of justice. States can afford to provide high quality representation for the accused …


Foreword, Rodney Uphoff Jun 2010

Foreword, Rodney Uphoff

Missouri Law Review

Even though almost everyone concedes that the caseload crisis in Missouri is real, the dire state budget situation makes a significant infusion of new resources virtually impossible. So if Missouri, like most other states, is truly broke, then realistically can the state find the funds needed to fix its broken indigent defense system? That was the question at the heart of the Symposium. The Symposium presenters and commentators, most of whom had worked at some point in their career as a public defender, brought a wealth of experience to the discussion. While the presentations and comments made that day, together …


Table Of Contents - Issue 3 Jun 2010

Table Of Contents - Issue 3

Missouri Law Review

Table of Contents - Issue 3


State Constitutional Challenges To Indigent Defense Systems, Stephen F. Hanlon Jun 2010

State Constitutional Challenges To Indigent Defense Systems, Stephen F. Hanlon

Missouri Law Review

For many years, the primary vehicle that advocates used to protect the fundamental right of the accused to the effective assistance of counsel was the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as incorporated to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment. For some time, most obviously during the Warren Court years, this federal strategy proved fruitful; indeed, it resulted in a series of landmark decisions by the United States Supreme Court that impact indigent defense systems to this day. A subsequent sea change in the Court's jurisprudence, however, which placed great emphasis on federalism, particularly the doctrines of justiciability and …


Commentary, Norman Lefstein Jun 2010

Commentary, Norman Lefstein

Missouri Law Review

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am delighted to be here and to have the opportunity to comment on my colleagues' remarks. I also welcome the chance to share with you my perspectives about indigent defense in the United States and here in Missouri.


Raising The Bar: Standards-Based Training, Supervision, And Evaluation, Adele Bernhard Jun 2010

Raising The Bar: Standards-Based Training, Supervision, And Evaluation, Adele Bernhard

Missouri Law Review

In this short Article, I sketch the methodology my colleagues and I at Pace Law School use to incorporate practice standards into our clinical teaching and reflect on how a standards-based teaching paradigm could be adapted to the training, supervision, and evaluation of public defenders. Then, I briefly consider how standards and standards-based teaching assist in the administration of assigned counsel plans and in the evaluation of the performance of public defender organizations. Although this Article does not cover any of these topics in depth, my goal is to introduce the reader to a standards-based approach to teaching and suggest …


Litigating The Ghost Of Gideon In Florida: Separation Of Powers As A Tool To Achieve Indigent Defense Reform, Wayne A. Logan Jun 2010

Litigating The Ghost Of Gideon In Florida: Separation Of Powers As A Tool To Achieve Indigent Defense Reform, Wayne A. Logan

Missouri Law Review

In this Article, I will discuss the Miami-Dade "excessive caseload" litigation, which continues to unfold in Florida's appellate courts. In doing so, I will offer some thoughts on the separation of powers implications of the aforementioned statute, which, other than a similar provision adopted in Coloradol7 that has gone unchallenged, stands alone in the nation.


Public Defender Elections And Popular Control Over Criminal Justice, Ronald F. Wright Jun 2010

Public Defender Elections And Popular Control Over Criminal Justice, Ronald F. Wright

Missouri Law Review

Part I of this Article reviews the existing evidence about the election of criminal justice officials and presents new evidence about the campaigns and outcomes in public defender elections. Voters respond to candidates for the public defender's office much in the same way that they react to candidates for the prosecutor's office: they choose the incumbent, even more often than they do for legislators and chief executives.2 The candidates themselves also behave fairly similarly in public defender and prosecutor election campaigns. Both the prosecutor and the defender candidates spend a disappointing amount of time in their campaign speeches discussing the …


Silencing The Rebel Yell: The Eighth Circuit Upholds A Public School's Ban On Confederate Flags, Lucinda Housley Luetkemeyer Jun 2010

Silencing The Rebel Yell: The Eighth Circuit Upholds A Public School's Ban On Confederate Flags, Lucinda Housley Luetkemeyer

Missouri Law Review

In 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit heard for the first time a case challenging the constitutionality of a public school's ban on the display of Confederate flags. When the Eighth Circuit faced this situation in B. WA. v. Farmington R- 7 School District (B. WA. v. Farmington), it attempted to balance the competing interests of protecting students' free speech rights and avoiding future disruption and danger to the learning environment. In doing so, the court adhered to the reasoning established by its sister circuits and set a precedent within the Eighth Circuit that shifts …


Beyond Equality And Adequacy: Equal Protection, Tax Assessments, And The Missouri Public School Funding Dilemma, Ronald K. Rowe Ii. Jun 2010

Beyond Equality And Adequacy: Equal Protection, Tax Assessments, And The Missouri Public School Funding Dilemma, Ronald K. Rowe Ii.

Missouri Law Review

This Note focuses on the 2009 challenge to the SB287 formula and specifically the arguments that should have been accepted by the Supreme Court of Missouri. Central to the rejected challenges were two arguments not sufficiently considered by the court in its opinion: (1) the new school funding formula violates equal protection provisions of the Missouri Constitution because it does not adequately provide equal treatment under the law with respect to the fundamental right of education, and (2) the tax assessment procedures prescribed by the new formula and implemented by the State Tax Commission do not comply with the Missouri …


Resurrection Of A Dead Remedy: Bringing Common Law Negligence Back Into Employment Law, Amanda Yoder Jun 2010

Resurrection Of A Dead Remedy: Bringing Common Law Negligence Back Into Employment Law, Amanda Yoder

Missouri Law Review

Prior to the enactment of workers' compensation laws' across the United States and in Missouri, many employees injured on the job were left with no redress. In 1921, less than 3,000 of the nearly 50,000 employees injured in Missouri received compensation.2 During this time, an estimated 25,000 employees died on the job in industrial accidents but less than twenty percent of their families received compensation.3 Those families that were compen- sated still had to bear the cost and delay of litigation.4 In response, legislatures sought to protect employees from the risks of the workplace and transfer the burden of recovery …


Counselor, Stop Everything - Missouri's Venue Statutes Receive An Expansive Interpretation, Darin P. Shreves Jun 2010

Counselor, Stop Everything - Missouri's Venue Statutes Receive An Expansive Interpretation, Darin P. Shreves

Missouri Law Review

This Note seeks to place Nixon in the context of Missouri law in order to analyze the court's holding and its attendant consequences. First, this Note will review Missouri's venue law leading up to Nixon. Next, this Note will examine the court's reasoning, consider its interpretation of the newlyenacted venue provision of section 508.012, and explore the issues and implications arising from the decision. Finally, this Note will conclude that in order to mitigate Nixon's departure from the legislative goals of the Tort Reform Act, future courts will limit the decision's reach by failing to apply its reasoning beyond the …


Epiphenomenal Indigent Defense, Darryl K. Brown Jun 2010

Epiphenomenal Indigent Defense, Darryl K. Brown

Missouri Law Review

There are some much-studied, recurring social events and behaviors that, although centrally important to public policy and social life, have proven intractable to explanation and prediction. As currently salient examples, consider stock market crashes and recessions. Economists cannot consistently see them coming nor explain them after the fact in consistent detail. Another example is crime rates, which rise, and in recent decades fall, without any discernable strong causal link to familiar variables such as employment or imprisonment rates. This Article describes why we can add state funding for indigent defense counsel to that list and what this conclusion means for …


Regulating Climate Change Risk At The Local Level - The Denver Experience: Greenprint Or Greenwash?, Romulo Silveira Da Rocha Sampaio Apr 2010

Regulating Climate Change Risk At The Local Level - The Denver Experience: Greenprint Or Greenwash?, Romulo Silveira Da Rocha Sampaio

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents Apr 2010

Table Of Contents

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Have The Sons Disobeyed Their Fathers? The Massachusetts' Standing Analysis After Biological Diversity. Center For Biological Diversity V. United States Department Of Interior, Michael A. Moorefield Apr 2010

Have The Sons Disobeyed Their Fathers? The Massachusetts' Standing Analysis After Biological Diversity. Center For Biological Diversity V. United States Department Of Interior, Michael A. Moorefield

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Restoring Tradition: The Inapplicability Of Tva V. Hill's Endangered Species Act Injunctive Relief Standard To Preliminary Injunctive Relief Of Non-Federal Actors , Brandon M. Middleton Apr 2010

Restoring Tradition: The Inapplicability Of Tva V. Hill's Endangered Species Act Injunctive Relief Standard To Preliminary Injunctive Relief Of Non-Federal Actors , Brandon M. Middleton

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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One Little Word Can Make All The Difference: Literal Interpretation Leads To Lake Destruction. Coeur Alaska, Inc. V. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Jessica Adams Apr 2010

One Little Word Can Make All The Difference: Literal Interpretation Leads To Lake Destruction. Coeur Alaska, Inc. V. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Jessica Adams

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.