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An evaluation of the administrative law role of the Queensland Planning and Environment Court

  • Norton Rose Australia
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  • Australia
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  • August 8 2012

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the administrative law role of the Queensland Planning Environment Court

Supreme Court opens door to suits challenging federal agency actions

  • Polsinelli Shughart PC
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  • USA
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  • April 4 2012

On March 21, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision effectively broadening the circumstances under which parties may go to court to seek review from final agency actions

Ohio public law update March 2012

  • Squire Sanders
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  • USA
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  • March 21 2012

The Local Government Innovation Program, which was established in the State Budget Bill signed by the governor on June 30, 2011, was amended by Substitute House Bill 371, effective March 22, 2012

Farmers' advocacy group enters foray against solar energy siting

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 5 2012

On October 31, 2011, the California Farm Bureau Federation petitioned the Superior Court in Fresno County for a peremptory writ of mandate and filed a complaint for injunctive relief to force the County to reverse its recent cancellation of a Williamson Act contract

Planning reforms: ideals versus reality

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 31 2011

It is hard to escape the fact that our planning system is in the throes of a dramatic reform, given that these proposed reforms have managed to make front page news and been at the centre of many recent debates during the party conference season

Flaw in negative screening opinion

  • Morton Fraser
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 15 2011

In Bateman v South Cambridgeshire District Council, it was held that a flaw in a local planning authority’s consideration of an EIA application invalidated a grant of planning permission

Despite dismissal, merits of Gifford v. USGBC still being weighed

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
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  • USA
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  • August 29 2011

Because hospitality developers are increasingly being encouraged, and in some cases required, to comply with the LEED rating system, we have been keeping an eye on Gifford v. U.S. Green Building Council

South Carolina Supreme Court expands DHEC's regulatory authority over isolated wetlands throughout the state under the pollution control act

  • Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP
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  • USA
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  • August 23 2011

In the July 2011 decision Georgetown County League of Women Voters v. Smith Land Co., Inc., the South Carolina Supreme Court held that the Department of Health and Environmental Control (“DHEC”) has jurisdiction to regulate isolated wetlands under the South Carolina Pollution Control Act, an expansion of DHEC’s regulatory authority over isolated wetlands throughout the State, beyond the eight “coastal zone” counties governed by the coastal management program organized pursuant to the Coastal Zone Management Act

Corps drops appeal over wetlands rules

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
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  • USA
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  • June 21 2011

As we wrote earlier, in New Hope Power Company and Okeelanta Corporation v. United States Army Corps of Engineers and Steven L. Stockton, U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore of the Southern District of Florida enjoined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' from enforcing its guidance documents, which modified the Corps's interpretation of its wetlands regulations

Courts widen planning controls over demolition

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 28 2011

The way the planning system treats demolition has long been a source of confusion and the Court of Appeal has recently complicated matters further in yet another example of the broad reach of the environmental impact assessment regime

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