The tragedies of 9/11, Katrina and Rita raised major problems with emergency responses, which did not proceed according to plan. Emergency action plans (EAP's) are a relatively new phenomenon, but the legal principles governing them are based in long-established rules of negligence.Statutes,...

Caveat emptor historically limited the rights of purchasers of real property. The increasing trend in the law is to limit caveat emptor, especially with environmental issues, such as asbestos and toxic mold. The duty to disclose may ber imposed by statute or case law. Another duty to disclose...

Although major dams are not designed or intended to fail, the unexpected may occur with tragic consequences. In the unlikely event of such a tragedy, the legal system has a full panoply of remedies available to compensate the victims and their families for the losses incurred. While each state...

Tobacco litigation has been with us for 6 ½ decades. The related field of Toxic Torts is 3 decades old. Both have common and overlapping issues of causation, damages, discovery, and theories of relief, but with the exception of a few cases involving asbestos and tobacco, they have generally...

We are attempting to assess the progress the federal government has made toward integrating environmental justice into its policies, programs, and activities, as well as whether federal agencies have made a substantial effort to direct and deliver environmental services to environmental justice...

Detroit, General Motors, and the American automobile industry have been in a progressive decline for decades. Millions of jobs, union and non-union, have been lost, scores of plants shuttered, and the Michigan economy left reeling. I wrote an unpublished manuscript 35 years ago, positing that as...