 | |  | | June 2, 2011 FindLaw.com Environment Law Newsletter |
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ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS: BILLIONAIRE LARRY ELLISON SETTLES TREE LAWSUIT
(FindLaw's Law & Daily Life) - Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's tree lawsuit finally came to an end on Wednesday, settling a years-long battle between the eccentric multi-millionaire and his downhill neighbors who have allowed their trees to block his view.
| MAJOR PANEL: DRUG WAR FAILED; LEGALIZE MARIJUANA
(AP) - The global war on drugs has failed and governments should explore legalizing marijuana and other controlled substances, according to a commission that includes former heads of state, a former U.N. secretary-general and a business mogul.
| VILSACK CONTINUES ROADLESS RULE IN NAT'L FORESTS
(AP) - The Obama administration has extended for another year a rule that blocks most logging and mining in millions of acres of remote sections of national forests. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he wants to preserve the so-called roadless rule while officials wait for federal courts to resolve legal issues surrounding the decade-old moratorium that President Bill Clinton put in place in 2001.
| MAYOR: RULING MEANS BIRTHDAYS NEED ENVIRO REVIEW
(AP) - The city's Fourth of July fireworks displays aren't the only celebrations in doubt after a judge ordered rigorous environmental reviews of large events, Mayor Jerry Sanders says. Birthday parties may be at risk if more than 75 people are invited.
| JUDGE TO RULE ON SPAT OVER SEALS AT SOCAL BEACH
(AP) - A judge is expected to hear a case over whether a Southern California cove where a seawall was built in the 1930s to calm the Pacific so children could play there needs to be cordoned off year-round to protect a colony of harbor seals.
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ANIMALS: 3 CALIFORNIA CONDORS DIE OF LEAD POISONING
(AP) - A conservation group says three California condors found in northern Arizona and southern Utah have died of lead poisoning and three others had toxic levels of lead in their bodies.
| RECENT CASE SUMMARIES: SIERRA FOREST LEGACY V. SHERMAN, 09-17796
(United States Ninth Circuit) - In a dispute concerning whether the process of establishing management guidelines for federal lands complied with both the procedural requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the substantive restrictions of the National Forest Management Act (NFMA), judgment of the district court is affirmed in part and reversed in part.
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