Author: National Association of Attorneys General. Committee on the Office of Attorney General
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Attorneys' Fee Awards Against State Officials in Environmental Litigation
Author: National Association of Attorneys General. Committee on the Office of Attorney General
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Attorneys' Fee Awards Against State Officials in Environmental Litigation/prepared for the Environmental Control Committee
Author: National Association of Attorneys General. Committee on the Office of Attorney General
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Environmental Litigation
Author: U.s. Government Accountability Office
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781974499212
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
"Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) faces numerous legal challenges as it implements the nation's environmental laws. Several statutes, such as the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, allow citizens to file suit against EPA to challenge certain agency actions. Where EPA is named as a defendant, the Department of Justice provides EPA's legal defense. If successful, plaintiffs may be paid for certain attorney fees and costs. Payments are made from the Department of the Treasury's Judgment Fund-a permanent fund available to pay judgments against the government, as well as settlements resulting from lawsuits-or EPA's appropriations. For this review, GAO was asked to examine (1) the trends in and factors affecting environmental litigation for fiscal years 1995 through 2010 and (2) Justice's recent costs and recent plaintiff payments from the Judgment Fund and EPA.To conduct this review, GAO obtained and analyzed data from two Justice databases on cases filed under 10 key environmental statutes. To gain stakeholder views on any trends and factors that might affect them, GAO interviewed representatives of environmental and industry groups, state attorneys general, and other experts. GAO estimated the costs of litigation handled by Justice attorneys and payments made for attorney fees and court costs from the Judgment Fund and EPA funds.GAO is making no recommendations"
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781974499212
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
"Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) faces numerous legal challenges as it implements the nation's environmental laws. Several statutes, such as the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, allow citizens to file suit against EPA to challenge certain agency actions. Where EPA is named as a defendant, the Department of Justice provides EPA's legal defense. If successful, plaintiffs may be paid for certain attorney fees and costs. Payments are made from the Department of the Treasury's Judgment Fund-a permanent fund available to pay judgments against the government, as well as settlements resulting from lawsuits-or EPA's appropriations. For this review, GAO was asked to examine (1) the trends in and factors affecting environmental litigation for fiscal years 1995 through 2010 and (2) Justice's recent costs and recent plaintiff payments from the Judgment Fund and EPA.To conduct this review, GAO obtained and analyzed data from two Justice databases on cases filed under 10 key environmental statutes. To gain stakeholder views on any trends and factors that might affect them, GAO interviewed representatives of environmental and industry groups, state attorneys general, and other experts. GAO estimated the costs of litigation handled by Justice attorneys and payments made for attorney fees and court costs from the Judgment Fund and EPA funds.GAO is making no recommendations"
Awarding of Attorneys' Fees
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Awarding of Attorney's Fees in Federal Courts
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costs (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costs (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781590318737
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Publisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781590318737
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Freedom of Information Act Guide
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of information
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of information
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
Rights and Retrenchment
Author: Stephen B. Burbank
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110818409X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This groundbreaking book contributes to an emerging literature that examines responses to the rights revolution that unfolded in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Using original archival evidence and data, Stephen B. Burbank and Sean Farhang identify the origins of the counterrevolution against private enforcement of federal law in the first Reagan Administration. They then measure the counterrevolution's trajectory in the elected branches, court rulemaking, and the Supreme Court, evaluate its success in those different lawmaking sites, and test key elements of their argument. Finally, the authors leverage an institutional perspective to explain a striking variation in their results: although the counterrevolution largely failed in more democratic lawmaking sites, in a long series of cases little noticed by the public, an increasingly conservative and ideologically polarized Supreme Court has transformed federal law, making it less friendly, if not hostile, to the enforcement of rights through lawsuits.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110818409X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This groundbreaking book contributes to an emerging literature that examines responses to the rights revolution that unfolded in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Using original archival evidence and data, Stephen B. Burbank and Sean Farhang identify the origins of the counterrevolution against private enforcement of federal law in the first Reagan Administration. They then measure the counterrevolution's trajectory in the elected branches, court rulemaking, and the Supreme Court, evaluate its success in those different lawmaking sites, and test key elements of their argument. Finally, the authors leverage an institutional perspective to explain a striking variation in their results: although the counterrevolution largely failed in more democratic lawmaking sites, in a long series of cases little noticed by the public, an increasingly conservative and ideologically polarized Supreme Court has transformed federal law, making it less friendly, if not hostile, to the enforcement of rights through lawsuits.
Attorneys' Fees, Practical and Ethical Considerations
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Overview of the Privacy Act of 1974
Author: United States. Department of Justice. Privacy and Civil Liberties Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The "Overview of the Privacy Act of 1974," prepared by the Department of Justice's Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties (OPCL), is a discussion of the Privacy Act's disclosure prohibition, its access and amendment provisions, and its agency recordkeeping requirements. Tracking the provisions of the Act itself, the Overview provides reference to, and legal analysis of, court decisions interpreting the Act's provisions.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The "Overview of the Privacy Act of 1974," prepared by the Department of Justice's Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties (OPCL), is a discussion of the Privacy Act's disclosure prohibition, its access and amendment provisions, and its agency recordkeeping requirements. Tracking the provisions of the Act itself, the Overview provides reference to, and legal analysis of, court decisions interpreting the Act's provisions.