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Weapons Of Mass Distortion: Applying The Principles Of The Fcc’S News Distortion Doctrine To Undisclosed Financial Conflicts Of Interest In Corporate News Media’S Military Coverage, Charles L. Bonani Oct 2020

Weapons Of Mass Distortion: Applying The Principles Of The Fcc’S News Distortion Doctrine To Undisclosed Financial Conflicts Of Interest In Corporate News Media’S Military Coverage, Charles L. Bonani

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

This Note offers a new conception of news distortion in mass media. It explores the intentions behind the FCC’s News Distortion Doctrine and analyzes its primarily dormant status throughout its existence. This Note then examines televised media coverage of U.S. military actions and identifies undisclosed financial conflicts of interests throughout this coverage. In examining these undisclosed conflicts and the reasons behind them, this Note explains why they constitute news distortion under the FCC’s definition, and why the principles behind the Doctrine are implicated. This Note then proposes the FCC promulgate a disclosure rule to remedy the undisclosed financial conflicts of …


Patent Accidents: Questioning Strict Liability In Patent Law, Patrick R. Goold Oct 2020

Patent Accidents: Questioning Strict Liability In Patent Law, Patrick R. Goold

Indiana Law Journal

Accidental infringement of patent rights is a pervasive and growing problem in the Information Age. As IP rights proliferate and expand in scope, it is becoming increasingly easy for companies and individuals to inadvertently infringe patents. When such accidental infringement occurs, patent law holds the infringer strictly liable. This contrasts with many areas of tort law where defendants are only liable if they act negligently.

This Article questions the normative desirability of strict liability in patent law. Assuming the primary value of patent law is utilitarian, this Article poses the research question: what liability rule will maximize social welfare? This …


A False Sense Of Security: How Congress And The Sec Are Dropping The Ball On Cryptocurrency, Tessa E. Shurr Oct 2020

A False Sense Of Security: How Congress And The Sec Are Dropping The Ball On Cryptocurrency, Tessa E. Shurr

Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)

Today, companies use blockchain technology and digital assets for a variety of purposes. This Comment analyzes the digital token. If the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) views a digital token as a security, then the issuer of the digital token must comply with the registration and extensive disclosure requirements of federal securities laws.

To determine whether a digital asset is a security, the SEC relies on the test that the Supreme Court established in SEC v. W.J. Howey Co. Rather than enforcing a statute or agency rule, the SEC enforces securities laws by applying the Howey test on a fact-intensive …


David Versus Godzilla: Bigger Stones, Jerry Ellig, Richard Williams Oct 2020

David Versus Godzilla: Bigger Stones, Jerry Ellig, Richard Williams

Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)

For four decades, U.S. Presidents have issued executive orders requiring agencies to conduct comprehensive regulatory impact analysis (RIA) for significant regulations to ensure that regulatory decisions solve social problems in a cost-beneficial manner. Yet experience demonstrates that agency RIAs often fail to live up to the standards enunciated in executive orders and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance. The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) oversees agency compliance with the executive orders, but OIRA is about half the size it was when it was established in 1980. Regulatory agency staff outnumber OIRA staff by a ratio of 3600 …


Whither The Regulatory "War On Coal"? Scapegoats, Saviors, And Stock Market Reactions, Cary Coglianese, Daniel E. Walters Oct 2020

Whither The Regulatory "War On Coal"? Scapegoats, Saviors, And Stock Market Reactions, Cary Coglianese, Daniel E. Walters

Faculty Scholarship

Complaints about excessive economic burdens associated with regulation abound in contemporary political and legal rhetoric. In recent years, perhaps nowhere have these complaints been heard as loudly as in the context of U.S. regulations targeting the use of coal to supply power to the nation’s electricity system, as production levels in the coal industry dropped by nearly half between 2008 and 2016. The coal industry and its political supporters, including the president of the United States, have argued that a suite of air pollution regulations imposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the Obama administration seriously undermined coal companies’ …


Unplanned Obsolescence: Interpreting The Automatic Telephone Dialing System After The Smartphone Epoch, Walter Allison Oct 2020

Unplanned Obsolescence: Interpreting The Automatic Telephone Dialing System After The Smartphone Epoch, Walter Allison

Michigan Law Review

Technology regulations succeed or fail based upon their ability to regulate an idea. Constant innovation forces legislators to draft statutes aimed at prohibiting the idea of a device, rather than a specific device itself, because new devices with new capacities emerge every day. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) is a federal statute that imposes liability based on the idea of an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS). But the statute’s definition of the device is ambiguous. The FCC struggles to coherently apply the definition to new technologies, and courts interpret the definition inconsistently. Federal circuit courts have split over these …


Back To The Future: Creating A Bipartisan Environmental Movement For The 21st Century, David M. Uhlmann Oct 2020

Back To The Future: Creating A Bipartisan Environmental Movement For The 21st Century, David M. Uhlmann

Articles

With a contentious presidential election looming amidst a pandemic, economic worries, and historic protests against systemic racism, climate action may seem less pressing than other challenges. Nothing could be further from the truth. To prevent greater public health threats and economic dislocation from climate disruption, which will disproportionately harm Black Americans, people of color, and indigenous people, this Comment argues that we need to restore the bipartisanship that fueled the environmental movement and that the fate of the planet—and our children and grandchildren—depends upon our collective action.


From Third World To First World: Law And Policy In Singapore’S Urban Transformation And Integration, Tan K. B. Eugene Oct 2020

From Third World To First World: Law And Policy In Singapore’S Urban Transformation And Integration, Tan K. B. Eugene

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The physical transformation of a colonial backwater city, Singapore, in one generation has been described as a feat of urban planning, renewal, and development. Less studied is the political will of the government to create a thriving city fit for purpose. Even less studied is the role of law that provides the powerful levers for the rapid and deep-seated changes to the urban landscape in Singapore. In this regard, the mindset shift that accompanied the massive urban transformation has facilitated a national psyche that embraces the material dimension of progress, for which urban renewal is not just a mere indicator …


Klaim Asuransi Pesawat Udara Sewa Guna Usaha (Operating Lease) Sebagai Objek Jaminan Fidusia, Sukarmi Sukarmi, M. Sudirman, Dwi Egawati Sep 2020

Klaim Asuransi Pesawat Udara Sewa Guna Usaha (Operating Lease) Sebagai Objek Jaminan Fidusia, Sukarmi Sukarmi, M. Sudirman, Dwi Egawati

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Airlines in the process of procurement of an Aircraft, one of which is through Operating Lease with the Leasing Company. The Leasing Company (Lessor) in purchasing an Aircraft with funding mechanism from the Bank shall encumber the Aircraft with a mortgage as its securities. In the Aircraft Lease Agreement, Insurance Claim over the Aircraft shall also be encumbered with fiduciary by Airlines. Nevertheless, under Article 10 paragraph b Law of The Republic of Indonesia Number 42 of 1999 on Fiduciary (hereinafter referred to as UUJF) states that unless otherwise agreed, Fiduciary includes the Insurance Claims in the event that the …


Kendala Dan Cara Hakim Peradilan Tata Usaha Negara Pasca Uu Administrasi Pemerintahan: Suatu Pendekatan Atas Penanganan Perkara Fiktif Positif, I Gusti Ngurah Wairocana, I Wayan Bela Siki Layang, I Ketut Sudiarta, Putu Ade Hariestha Martana, Kadek Agus Sudiarawan, Bagus Hermanto Sep 2020

Kendala Dan Cara Hakim Peradilan Tata Usaha Negara Pasca Uu Administrasi Pemerintahan: Suatu Pendekatan Atas Penanganan Perkara Fiktif Positif, I Gusti Ngurah Wairocana, I Wayan Bela Siki Layang, I Ketut Sudiarta, Putu Ade Hariestha Martana, Kadek Agus Sudiarawan, Bagus Hermanto

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

After the enactment of the Law of Government Administration, had implied to shifting paradigm concerning the regime of Administrative Decision from negative fictive became positive fictive. However, the regulation into Law of Government Administration contains several obstacles on pratical scope towards Administrative Court Judges. Meanwhile enactment of Supreme Court regulation however Adiministrative Court Judges searching the suitable method after implication of positive fictive regime in the Administrative Procedural Law System. This study aims to analyze and discuss concerning obstacles and method by the Administrative Court Judges solving the practical obstacles after enactment of the Law of Government Administration. This study …


Tanggung Jawab Jabatan Dan Tanggung Jawab Pribadi Dalam Penggunaan Diskresi, Nehru Asyikin, Adam Setiawan Sep 2020

Tanggung Jawab Jabatan Dan Tanggung Jawab Pribadi Dalam Penggunaan Diskresi, Nehru Asyikin, Adam Setiawan

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Discretion is part of the authority to act freely by government officials to ensure the implementation of public services. However, the discretionary rules inherent in the office when it must be immediately to act without written law creates a conflict about the government must be based on the law. On the other hand the need for discretion becomes a polemic regarding job responsibilities and personal responsibility in the use of discretion, which parameters of use sometimes cause harm to society. The results of the study show that the implications of using discretion in the actions of officials that are used …


Prostitusi Online: Penjualan Suami Oleh Istri (Perubahan Relasi Gender Dan Seksualitas Di Era Digital), Vinita Susanti Sep 2020

Prostitusi Online: Penjualan Suami Oleh Istri (Perubahan Relasi Gender Dan Seksualitas Di Era Digital), Vinita Susanti

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

This article discusses online prostitution in the digital age, by showing changes in gender relations between victims and perpetrators, which are analyzed with the view of radical feminists and Bourdieu's theory, symbolic violence. Women in gender ideology are placed as victims, so in this article there is social deconstruction, where women occupy positions as perpetrators. This change was demonstrated through an online prostitution case: the selling of a husband by a wife. The discussion begins with the case of online prostitution, women in reality studies: victims of online prostitution, the study of radical feminist thought and symbolic violence from Bourdieu's …


Optimalisasi Fungsi Pengawasan Dewan Etik Mahkamah Konstitusi, Fajlurrahman Jurdi, Rizqa Ananda Hanapi, Taufik Hidayat Sep 2020

Optimalisasi Fungsi Pengawasan Dewan Etik Mahkamah Konstitusi, Fajlurrahman Jurdi, Rizqa Ananda Hanapi, Taufik Hidayat

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Violations of law and code of ethics performed by the constitutional judge shows that there is abuse of power within the court. The existence of Board of Ethics has questioned due to these violation and accused for not being able to perform its function in maintaining the dignity of the court. This concludes that the optimization of the function of the Board of Ethics are necessary. This is a normative and doctrinal research with several approaches. This research explains that board of ethics needs several changes within its body, such as: 1) boarden the board’s authority from investigating reports and …


Pengaturan Dan Praktek Praperadilan Tindak Pidana Pajak Di Indonesia, Ahmad Sofian, Batara Mulia Hasibuan Sep 2020

Pengaturan Dan Praktek Praperadilan Tindak Pidana Pajak Di Indonesia, Ahmad Sofian, Batara Mulia Hasibuan

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Pretrial is an institution to control and correct law enforcement which are deemed to have violated mechanisms established in procedural laws. The correction is not aimed to look into the aspects of the alleged criminal case but determine whether “rules of the game” established in the formal criminal law have been implemented properly or not. In practice, tax payers being involved in tax criminal cases often file pretrial motion although tax investigators actually have applied the principles of formal criminal law in legal measures they take. There are often different interpretations of laws and regulations used in pretrial institution for …


Penguatan Kapasitas Lpd Desa Adat Di Bali Melalui Penyuratan Awig-Awig, I Made Suwitra, I Ketut Selamet, Luh Kade Datrini Sep 2020

Penguatan Kapasitas Lpd Desa Adat Di Bali Melalui Penyuratan Awig-Awig, I Made Suwitra, I Ketut Selamet, Luh Kade Datrini

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The Village Credit Institution (LPD) owned by Desa Adat in Bali is oriented to strengthen the economy of indigenous peoples (krama adat) through lending (loans) and savings. The main source of capital for LPDs is the commitment and trust of all village manners which are submitted through the Adat Village Management Board (Prajuru) and the LPD Board. The strengthening of LPDs is in its management and accounting system and its supervision, because it is not uncommon for LPDs that are already large due to weak monitoring systems, poor management and accounting systems to misuse LPD funds utilization which causes LPD …


Menilik Rezim Pengelolaan Tambang Freeport Dalam Mewujudkan Kesejahteraan Rakyat: Perpanjangan Kontrak Karya Atau Peralihan Ke Rezim Perizinan?, Ananda Prima Yurista, Rizky Septiana Widyaningtyas, Alda Awwalil Hasani Sep 2020

Menilik Rezim Pengelolaan Tambang Freeport Dalam Mewujudkan Kesejahteraan Rakyat: Perpanjangan Kontrak Karya Atau Peralihan Ke Rezim Perizinan?, Ananda Prima Yurista, Rizky Septiana Widyaningtyas, Alda Awwalil Hasani

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The management of mineral and coal mining by Freeport has been carried out since 1967 based on a work agreement/contract of work, which is regulated in Law No. 11 of 1967 concerning Basic Mining Provisions. Since the enactment of Law no. 4 of 2009 concerning Coal Minerals under the authority in the management of minerals and coal changed from a work agreement/contract of work to a mining business permit. This article will try to respond to opportunities for contract extension or termination of work contacts and see which regimes will provide greater opportunities for the benefit of the state (in …


Status Hak Tanggungan Pada Pembiayaan Kepemilikan Rumah Di Akad Musyarakah Mutana Qisah (Mmq), Febrian Dwi Laksono, Thohir Luth, Siti Hamidah Sep 2020

Status Hak Tanggungan Pada Pembiayaan Kepemilikan Rumah Di Akad Musyarakah Mutana Qisah (Mmq), Febrian Dwi Laksono, Thohir Luth, Siti Hamidah

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The prevailing legal stipulations on the contract of the Musyarakah Mutanaqisah (MMQ) financing are occurred legal uncertainty, which is caused by obscurity of the encumbrance regulations for land relating to financing with the MMQ contract. One of arising legal issue in the MMQ financing mechanism is a blurring of the norms contained in Law Number 4 of 1996 concerning Encumbrance Right over Land And Land-Related Objects (UUHT). The obscurity is caused by unclear stipulating sharia financing or specifically financing with the MMQ contract in UUHT. One of the provisions that reflecting this lack of clarity is to examine the description …


Peraturan Presiden No. 125/ 2016 Sebagai Katalis Perubahan Dalam Kebijakan Penyelamatan Kapal Pengungsi Rohingya, Susan Kneebone Sep 2020

Peraturan Presiden No. 125/ 2016 Sebagai Katalis Perubahan Dalam Kebijakan Penyelamatan Kapal Pengungsi Rohingya, Susan Kneebone

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

This paper incorporates discussion and papers presented at a Workshop on ‘Presidential Regulation No. 125 of 2016 on the Treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Indonesia: Opportunities and Challenges’, held at the Fakultas Hukum (Faculty of Law), Universitas Indonesia, in March 2018. The argument in this piece, namely that the Peraturan Presiden (Presidential Decree) No. 125/ 2016 is unlikely to be effective, has been borne out by the action of fishermen from Aceh who in 2020 landed 99 Rohingya refugees after the government of Indonesia refused to assist them. The PerPres of 125/16 does not contain a clear and …


Konsep Kepemilikan Tanah Ulayat Masyarakat Adat Minangkabau, Fitrah Akbar Citrawan Sep 2020

Konsep Kepemilikan Tanah Ulayat Masyarakat Adat Minangkabau, Fitrah Akbar Citrawan

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Land is a very important factor in the life of the people of Indonesia, especially in the environment of the West Sumatra customary law community, where most of its population depend their lives and livelihoods from the land. In West Sumatra, in reality there are still acknowledged lands in the customary law community whose management, use and use are based on the provisions of local customary law and are recognized by the residents of the customary law community as their communal land. Ulayat Land Minangkanbau in the concept of ownership includes in the narrow sense that it is in the …


Telaah Yuridis Terhadap Surat Edaran Kementrian Agraria Dan Tata Ruang No. 2/Se-Ht.02.01/Vi/2019, Nur Adhim, Siti Mahmudah, Kornelius Benuf Sep 2020

Telaah Yuridis Terhadap Surat Edaran Kementrian Agraria Dan Tata Ruang No. 2/Se-Ht.02.01/Vi/2019, Nur Adhim, Siti Mahmudah, Kornelius Benuf

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The Agraria Basic Law (UUPA) regulates that legal subjects for land rights, including land with HGB status (Right to Build), are Indonesian citizens and legal entities established under Indonesian law and domiciled in Indonesia. A different thing happened when a Circular from the Ministry of Agraria and Spatial Planning (ATR) was issued, stating that the Partnership Alliance (CV) could apply for land rights in the form of HGB. The difference in the substance of these rules will be analyzed using normative juridical writing methods, using secondary data. This paper will explain the legal status of CV in Indonesia, Arrangement of …


Penerapan Asas Proporsionalitas Dalam Pemanfaatan Aset Negara Melalui Model Build Operate And Transfer/Bot, Anita Kamilah Sep 2020

Penerapan Asas Proporsionalitas Dalam Pemanfaatan Aset Negara Melalui Model Build Operate And Transfer/Bot, Anita Kamilah

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

National development in infrastructure by utilizing state-owned assets is a priority of President Joko Widodo's administration in an effort to equalize people's welfare through ease of connectivity in all regions of Indonesia. The amount of Indonesia's foreign debt which reached Rp. 5,425 trillion as well as limited government funding in both the APBN and APBD, strived through collaboration with the private sector using the Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) model. For the government, infrastructure development through BOT provides benefits to be able to utilize state assets without having to spend funding, increase state revenue, and at the end of the …


Tindak Pidana Pencemaran Nama Baik Melalui Facebook Menurut Kuhp Dan Undang-Undang Nomor 11 Tahun 2008 Tentang Ite, Arif Satria Subekti, Novian Ardynata Setya Pradana, Ajrina Yuka Ardhira, Mukhammad Tismandico Ilham Zulfikar Sep 2020

Tindak Pidana Pencemaran Nama Baik Melalui Facebook Menurut Kuhp Dan Undang-Undang Nomor 11 Tahun 2008 Tentang Ite, Arif Satria Subekti, Novian Ardynata Setya Pradana, Ajrina Yuka Ardhira, Mukhammad Tismandico Ilham Zulfikar

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The size of an action can be named as defaming the reputation of others is still unclear because many factors must be studied. In the case of defamation or defamation that is protected, the protection of others for the other person's point of view is protected and the agreed name in the eyes of others. Someone even the authorities will face us to account for a word that we have made against someone. Being asked to act disgracefully can help fight in the community. More than that, in solving problems, the legal people are actually required to really determine the …


Kebijakan Perlindungan Anak Korban Kejahatan Seksual Di Cirebon, Nur Rahman, Sarip Sarip Sep 2020

Kebijakan Perlindungan Anak Korban Kejahatan Seksual Di Cirebon, Nur Rahman, Sarip Sarip

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

This research is motivated by the local media in Cirebon since May 2016-2018 cannot be separated from the discussion and data that Cirebon is categorized as an emergency of child violence. The category of emergencies can be known from data on the increase in child violence in 2016 with 30 cases recorded, in 2017 there were 126 cases, and in early 2018 it increased to 147 cases. What is the ideal policy for realizing child protection? What steps should be taken by the regional government in Cirebon in responding to areas that are included in the emergency situation of child …


Preview—Park County Environmental Council V. Montana Department Of Environmental Quality: A Test Of Montana’S Right To A Clean And Healthful Environment, Liz M. Forster Sep 2020

Preview—Park County Environmental Council V. Montana Department Of Environmental Quality: A Test Of Montana’S Right To A Clean And Healthful Environment, Liz M. Forster

Public Land & Resources Law Review

The Supreme Court of Montana will hear oral arguments in this matter on Wednesday, September 30, 2020, at 9:30 a.m. in the Mazurek Justice Building in Helena, Montana. This case challenges a key provision of Montana’s bedrock environmental law—the Montana Environmental Policy Act (“MEPA”)—and tests the judicial power of the state’s constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment to issue injunctions to prevent environmental harm.


Conditions Of Legality Of Administrative Act And Errors Of Discretionary Power, Jurabek Nematov Sep 2020

Conditions Of Legality Of Administrative Act And Errors Of Discretionary Power, Jurabek Nematov

Review of law sciences

This article is a scientific-theoretical analysis of the most central institution of administrative law – the administrative act. The article presents the features of the administrative act, scientific-theoretical views on the terms of the legality of the administrative act. The illegality of discretionary power, error in the application of discretionary power, the criteria for determining the abuse of discretionary power are revealed


Organizational And Legal Issues Of Digital Public Administration In The Sphere Of Customs In The Republic Of Uzbekistan, Elyor Rahmatov Sep 2020

Organizational And Legal Issues Of Digital Public Administration In The Sphere Of Customs In The Republic Of Uzbekistan, Elyor Rahmatov

Review of law sciences

In this article, the author analyzes the legal issues of organizational and legal issues of digital public administration within customs authorities of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the essence of reforms in ensuring the economic security of the country with the widespread use of information and communication technologies in the activities of customs authorities.


Indigenous Environmental Network And North Coast Rivers Alliance V. President Donald J. Trump, Et Al. And Tc Energy Corporation, Et Al., Kirsten D. Gerbatsch Ms. Sep 2020

Indigenous Environmental Network And North Coast Rivers Alliance V. President Donald J. Trump, Et Al. And Tc Energy Corporation, Et Al., Kirsten D. Gerbatsch Ms.

Public Land & Resources Law Review

A single cross-border pipeline project has been the epicenter of environmental litigation for the last decade—and it is not over yet. For years, TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, LP and TC Energy have sought to construct and maintain a segment of the Keystone pipeline between the United States and Canada to connect existing pipeline infrastructure and transport crude oil. To do so, the company must first apply and be approved for a permit. Between 2008 and 2012, President Obama twice denied TransCanada Keystone Pipeline and TC Energy’s applications. Then, in 2017 and again in 2019, President Trump unilaterally invited TC Energy’s application …


Montana Wildlife Federation V. Bernhardt, Henry D. O'Brien Sep 2020

Montana Wildlife Federation V. Bernhardt, Henry D. O'Brien

Public Land & Resources Law Review

A federal court in Montana vacated the lease sale of several large oil and gas developments in Montana and Wyoming because BLM’s revised guidance documents, which facilitated the lease sales, failed to prioritize development outside of sage-grouse habitat, as required by BLM land use plans. BLM adopted the prioritization requirement in 2015 as part of an effort to prevent the sage-grouse from being listed under the Endangered Species Act. The court held BLM violated the Federal Land Policy and Management Act when it essentially eliminated the prioritization requirement and approved the lease sales without properly amending the land use plans.


County Of Maui, Hawaii V. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, Rachel L. Wagner Sep 2020

County Of Maui, Hawaii V. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, Rachel L. Wagner

Public Land & Resources Law Review

The Supreme Court of the United States was recently asked to decide whether the Clean Water Act requires a permit for the discharge of pollutants that originate from a point source but are conveyed to navigable waters by a nonpoint source. Vacating the Ninth Circuit’s “fairly traceable” test, the Court held the Clean Water Act requires a permit when there is a direct discharge of pollutants from a point source into navigable waters or when there is the “functional equivalent of a direct discharge.”


U.S. Forest Service V. Cowpasture River Preservation Ass'n., Taylor A. Simpson Sep 2020

U.S. Forest Service V. Cowpasture River Preservation Ass'n., Taylor A. Simpson

Public Land & Resources Law Review

The United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the United States Forest Service and Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC, a company who planned to construct a natural gas pipeline under a section of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail within the George Washington National Forest. The legal battle sought to clarify whether the United States Forest Service had the authority to grant the pipeline builder a right-of-way across the Appalachian Trail. The Court ruled that the National Park Service holds an easement for administering the Appalachian Trail, but the land over which the trail crosses remains under the jurisdiction of the …