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...Afraid of a Lucas lawsuit...
...That's what prompted the coalition's class-action lawsuit, which follows other suits filed by individual parties. The TBC seeks an immediate injunction to halt the Texas fence project, and asks the court to force Homeland Security, which claims it has gone above and beyond to negotiate in good faith with the landowners, into new negotiations for the right-of-way. But the 19-page filing is not entirely focused on individual property rights and the Ps and Qs of bureaucratic procedure. The coalition's lead attorneys are not real estate lawyers - they are associated with the Center...
...Wagner and Sancho’s lawsuit, while improbable, is not frivolous. After all, the one time we got it wrong would easily outweigh all the previous times we were overly cautious. Most likely, when the LHC goes online later this year, nothing will happen, which I will hear about from my basement with my jugs of water and a game of Scrabble...
...what may have been the deathblow. As public pressure mounted, Utah governor Jon Huntsman, who initially supported the plan, vowed to quash it. He ordered the state's representative to a multi-state compact that oversees LLRW disposal to vote against it. The company has since filed a federal lawsuit arguing that the compact does not have authority over the Utah landfill. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will ultimately approve or deny the application...
...spate of well-publicized incidents in which conflicts that have failed to find mediation in the classroom have spilled into other realms, like the Internet or the courthouse. Like the Horace Mann case, featuring vicious Facebook groups aimed at high school teachers, Venkatesan’s move to a lawsuit and book deal represent a failure of reconciliation within the classroom. Student-teacher arguments are nothing new, of course, but these escalated clashes still suggest a lack of mutual respect and an inability to resolve disagreements amicably. Venkatesan would have done well to bring her grievances to a university administrator...