Judge Alfred T. Goodwin offers book review of Nature’s Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age by University of Oregon Professor Mary Christina Wood
Goodwin, Hon. Alfred T. *Book Review: A Wake-Up Call For Judges2015 Wis. L. Rev. 785 (2015). “Proliferating international demand for American petro-chemical exports and soaring prices for compressed natural gas will soon produce a critical mass of litigation over the rights of the people of the United States versus the corporate capital now being invested in fracturing shale. If the horizontal drilling to execute fracking is indeed poisoning the water needed to sustain human life on the land above the fracking, plaintiffs who have standing will find lawyers and sue in their state and federal courts. Professor Mary Christina Wood of the University of Oregon School of Law has recently authored an…
The Judge’s Judge: Edward Leavy Garners the Federal Judiciary’s Highest Honor
One week he is in Texas doing a mediation, the next in San Francisco hearing motions. In a three-month period in late 2015, he was on the job every day. At 86 years old, Edward Leavy is still working, still going strong. For more: https://www.osbar.org/publications/bulletin/16jan/profiles.html
Rethinking justice: A prosecutor, a felon and a choice
They were brought together two years ago. She thought he looked like a sullen thug. He thought she looked like a strict high school principal. Then something changed. What happens when two people who come from different worlds are forced to meet twice a month for nearly a year? They discover heart. The one thing we all have in common. For more: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/page/a_different_kind_of_justice.html#incart_big-photo
Ninth Circuit Judge Edward Leavy Wins Judiciary’s Highest Honor
Judge Edward Leavy, a senior jurist on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has been selected to receive what has been called the federal judiciary’s highest honor: the Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award. For more: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/10/portland_us_appeals_judge_wins.html#incart_river_home
Gay marriage: 5 things Judge McShane says about his landmark ruling
U.S. District Judge Michael McShane is now telling some behind-the-scenes stories about his landmark ruling last year that struck down Oregon’s ban on same-sex marriage. McShane talked about his decision Thursday evening when he appeared with several lawyers involved in the case at an event sponsored by the U.S. District Court of Oregon Historical Society at the federal courthouse in Portland. For more: http://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2015/06/gay_marriage_judge_michael_mcs_1.html#incart_2box