By Dan Roe | April 25, 2022
The former lawyer who sued Chevron for pollution in Ecuador was on house arrest for more than 800 days while awaiting his criminal contempt trial and following his conviction last July.
By Jason Grant | March 16, 2022
"Biden has turned a blind eye to the persecution of a key lawyer who worked to win a historic judgment against Chevron," Amazon Watch Associate Director Paul Paz y Miño said in a news release that made public the letter issued to Biden by 117 groups.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan | March 9, 2022
New York has taken action to address PFOA and PFOS in all environmental media and across many regulatory programs. However, the need to consider PFOA and PFOS is still expanding, and industrial operators, business owners and their counsel should continue to closely monitor developments and pronouncements from the Legislature, DEC and DOH.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Karen Meara and Christopher Rizzo | March 2, 2022
This article outlines recent proposals from Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state legislature to address this crisis, as well as a novel challenge to a recent New York City rezoning that included a major affordability component. The new mayor has yet to release his plans but appears to be on board with the Governor's proposals so far.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Viren Mascarenhas, Doug Cassel and Peter Hood | February 8, 2022
The "hardening" of legal norms on business and human rights continued their long-term accretion in 2021, through judicial, legislative and administrative enforcement.
By Andrew Maloney | January 24, 2022
Lateral moves in ESG have continued to heat up, as investor and consumer demands have grown to fuel the expansion of the cross-disciplinary practice.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By John C. Coffee Jr. | January 19, 2022
Let us assume for the moment that the SEC can require more than material information (or can convince courts that most ESG disclosures are material). What happens next? Given that the social costs of greenhouse gas emission vastly exceed their private costs to issuers (which is the point at which economists stop), what can lawyers, as specialists in policy engineering, do to bring the two closer to alignment? John C. Coffee Jr. explores these questions in this edition of his Corporate Securities column.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan | January 12, 2022
This annual survey of New York environmental legislation describes numerous new laws on single-use plastics, lead exposure, drinking water, fuel oil, climate resilience, solar energy, invasive species and other areas that were signed into law in 2021.
By Jason Grant | December 1, 2021
Lawyers argued fiercely about whether there had been sufficient, or any, DOJ oversight of Rita Glavin, the judge-appointed special prosecutor, during the contempt case, and about whether an alleged lack of such supervision had violated the U.S. Constitution or Supreme Court case law.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Scott Mollen | November 16, 2021
Scott Mollen discusses 'Coldenham LLC v. Maldonado,' 'Pomona Country Club v. Escoffery,' and 'Davies v. S.A. Dunn & Co.'
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