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Mapping Coastal Risks And Social Vulnerability: Principles And Considerations, Shana Jones Apr 2015

Mapping Coastal Risks And Social Vulnerability: Principles And Considerations, Shana Jones

Virginia Coastal Policy Center

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Mapping Coastal Risks And Social Vulnerability: Current Tools And Legal Risks, Lisa Schiavinato, Heather Payne Apr 2015

Mapping Coastal Risks And Social Vulnerability: Current Tools And Legal Risks, Lisa Schiavinato, Heather Payne

Virginia Coastal Policy Center

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Go Green, Save Money: Lowering Flood Insurance Rates In Virginia With Stormwater Management And Open Space, Adele Young, Kristen Clark Apr 2015

Go Green, Save Money: Lowering Flood Insurance Rates In Virginia With Stormwater Management And Open Space, Adele Young, Kristen Clark

Virginia Coastal Policy Center

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State And Local Liability For Failure To Adapt To And Protect Against Recurrent Flooding: Applying Farmers Insurance's Legal Framework To Virginia Circumstances, James M. Andris Jr. Apr 2015

State And Local Liability For Failure To Adapt To And Protect Against Recurrent Flooding: Applying Farmers Insurance's Legal Framework To Virginia Circumstances, James M. Andris Jr.

Virginia Coastal Policy Center

No abstract provided.


Fifty States, Fifty Attorneys General, And Fifty Approaches To The Duty To Defend, Neal Devins, Saikrishna B. Prakash Apr 2015

Fifty States, Fifty Attorneys General, And Fifty Approaches To The Duty To Defend, Neal Devins, Saikrishna B. Prakash

Faculty Publications

Whether a state attorney general has a duty to defend the validity of state law is a complicated question, one that cannot be decided by reference either to the oath state officers must take to support the federal Constitution or the supremacy of federal law. Instead, whether a state attorney general must defend state law turns on her own state’s laws. Each state has its own constitution, statutes, bar rules, and traditions, and not surprisingly, the duties of attorneys general vary across the states. To simplify somewhat, we believe that there are three types of duties. One set of attorneys …


Privacy Issues And The Paparazzi, Devan Orr Apr 2015

Privacy Issues And The Paparazzi, Devan Orr

Library Staff Publications

In order to understand the current statutes and their implication for privacy issues, Part I explores the history of the paparazzi and their invasion into the lives and privacy of celebrities as a safety concern. Part II reviews the history of both California Penal Code 11414 and California Civil Code 1708.8. Part III examines the text of California Penal Code 11414 and California Civil Code 1708.7, 1708.8, and 1708.9, as amended by the three bills. Part IV analyzes how the statutes as amended interact with the common law torts of intrusion and trespass and discusses how the statutes interact with …