Hot Topics in Products Liability Law: Practical Problems Currently Limit the Use of Data in Products Liability Cases, but That Will Soon Change
April 12, 2023
by Devin R. Bates
In a past blog post, we predicted that data is arguably the products liability issue of the future, and we also explored some ways in which data can be used as a sword and a shield in products liability cases. However, arguably the most pressing, and most practically limiting issue surrounding the…
Operation of Bonnet Carre´ Spillway/National Environmental Policy Act: Federal Appellate Court Addresses Whether Army Corps of Engineers Should Have Prepared a Supplemental EIS
Co-Author: Madalyn Goolsby A group of Mississippi municipalities and associations filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court (S.D. Miss.) against the United States Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) for allegedly violating the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). See Harrison County…
Effluent Guidelines/Clean Water Act: Waterkeeper Petition Challenging U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Alleged Failure to Revise Seven Industrial Point Source Categories
Waterkeeper Alliance and 11 other environmental organizations (collectively “Waterkeeper”) filed an April 11th Petition for Review (“Petition”) in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit alleging a failure by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to not undertake…
Smart Growth for Source Water Protection/Clean Water Act Section 319: Beaver Watershed Alliance Announces Receipt of Grant
The Beaver Watershed Alliance (“BWA”) issued a news release stating that it had received a Section 319 Clean Water Act grant totaling $523,120 to: Develop programming for watershed management in urban areas. Install three low impact development features within the Beaver Lake watershed area. The…
Arkansas Passes the Social Media Safety Act
April 11, 2023
by Lizzi Esparza
On April 10, 2023, the Arkansas legislature passed the Social Media Safety Act (the “Act”). Pending the governor’s signature, the Act will take effect on September 1, 2023. See S.B. 396, 94th Gen. Assemb., Reg. Sess. (Ark. 2023). The Act will require a “social media company” to (1) use a…