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Timeline - a guide to the legal milestones ahead

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 10 2011

This is a guide to key legal developments in the coming months and years ahead

LEED avoids class action, energy savings claim left untested

  • Stoel Rives LLP
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  • USA
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  • August 23 2011

There’s big news in the battle between consultants in the green building industry and the U.S. Green Building Council

Case summary: Pohlig Builders, LLC v. Zoning Hearing Board of Schuylkill Township

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
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  • USA
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  • August 8 2011

In Pohlig Builders, LLC v. Zoning Hearing Board of Schuylkill Township, 15 A.3d 563, 2011 WL 2084174, Pa. Cmwlth, March 17, 2011 (No. 782 C.D. 2010), the Commonwealth Court addressed the Schuylkill Township Board of Supervisors’ zoning appeal based on a variance granted to Pohlig Builders (the developers) to disturb an area of steep slopes such that the developers could construct their proposed residential development

LEED 101

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • August 1 2011

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is an independent, third-party green building certification system that promotes sustainable building and development practices by defining and measuring “green buildings.”

Energy Performance Certificates in real estate trade

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • Poland
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  • June 29 2011

Energy Performance Certificates were introduced at the beginning of 2010

First Circuit rules developer may not file federal takings claim over Native American archeological site

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • USA
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  • June 10 2011

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has ruled that the developer of a coastal residential subdivision in Narragansett, Rhode Island, did not have grounds to file a federal takings claim after the state halted the project when an American Indian archeological site was discovered

The Open for Business Act: Bill 68 An act to promote Ontario as open for business by amending or repealing certain acts - enacted as: Chapter 16 of the Statutes of Ontario, 2010

  • Dentons
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  • Canada
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  • May 19 2011

Bill 68 An Act to promote Ontario as open for business by amending or repealing certain Acts (the “Open for Business Act”)1 received Royal Assent on October 25, 2010. It is an omnibus Act which contains more than 100 amendments to existing legislation spread out across 10 ministries

Government targets 2019 for zero carbon commercial buildings

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 31 2011

Grant Shapps, Minister for Housing and Local Government, has confirmed that Government policy is progressively to raise the national regulatory requirements for non-domestic buildings between now and 2019, enabling them to be "zero carbon" from 2019

Bain v. Vertex Architects: firm “failed to diligently pursue and obtain leed for homes certification from USGBC”

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 18 2011

An interesting green building litigation that was filed last fall last fall in Cook County (Illinois) Circuit Court has flown under the radar

Green building projects: the growing trend brings both opportunities and potential liability risks

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • February 28 2011

The "green building" trend is gaining momentum

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