Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Summary. : Good samaritan food laws across the country provide liability protection for those who donate food. Unfortunately, families who depend on such donations pay a dramatic cost if they become ill because of simple negligence. By . Sarah Munger. In 2010, the United States wasted an estimated 133 billion pounds of post-harvest food. 1. Of that, 43 billion pounds of waste occurred in the retail sector and 90 billion pounds occurred at the consumer level. 2.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Hours before a controversial set of new reporting requirements for government contractors was set to take effect, a federal court in Texas enjoined implementation of the requirements across the country. Executive Order 13673, known as the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order, directed the Department of Labor and the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to create new rules and guidance aimed at ensuring that government contractors comply with existing federal and state labor laws.

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Environmental Europe

OCTOBER 27, 2016

After decades of debate on where – and whether – to expand airport capacity in south-eastern England, the UK government announced two days ago that it would favour building a third runway at Heathrow Airport. This option, highly criticised on environmental grounds (notably due to the air pollution caused by road transport to the airport) has been presented by Prime Minister Theresa May as key to show the world that the UK is ‘open for business’ after Brexit.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The question often arises whether, in Louisiana, a party can file in the public record a “memorandum of servitude” rather than the full servitude. If the parties do that, any unrecorded provisions may not be binding on third parties. Other states’ laws may provide that recordation of such a memorandum of easement, the common law equivalent of a servitude, suffices to bind third parties to all the provisions in the unrecorded easement.

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Waste

The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Sophisticated plaintiffs beware. In Bayou Fleet, Inc. v. Bollinger Shipyards, Inc., et al. , the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal concluded that contra non valentem, a judicially created exception to prescription, did not apply to prevent the running of prescription on a claim for wrongful conversion when the plaintiff company, the owner of a destroyed crane boom, was run by sophisticated businessmen who failed to check up on a more-than-a-million dollar asset more than once a year.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Summary. : While many law students graduate and become litigators, judges, or an attorney who plays another role in the judicial branch, some law students set their sights on the other two branches of government – the legislative and executive branches. We need lobbyists and policy advisors to assist our legislators so that the science necessary to make effective environmental rules and regulations can be codified.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Summary. : If there is one thing the fossil fuel industry, the government, and climate change activists might agree on it is this: in the end it all comes down to money. Oil, gas and coal companies, and their investors, are terrified of leaving fossil fuels in the ground. As to issue of climate change as a whole, the industry is providing a product utilized by everyone, and companies like Exxon posit that they, and their investors, will be paying the full burden when all comes to bear.

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