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1) Dawn at Mineral King Valley: the Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the rise of environmental law
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Law professor Daniel Selmi chronicles a seminal case that opened a new field of law: environmental protection. It shows how, against long odds, the Sierra Club prevented the Walt Disney Company from building a massive ski resort in the magnificent Mineral King Valley of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Proposed in 1965, the vast Disney development would have irretrievably altered the relatively untouched Mineral King Valley in the Southern Sierra Nevada...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Americans have long been identified as a people of law and lawyers with an addiction to lawsuits. In Litigation Nation, Peter Charles Hoffer, one of America's most preeminent legal historians, charts the history of civil litigation from the seventeenth century to the present, using key cases pursued by ordinary people to illustrate how the civil courts have been a battlefront to contest the boundaries of permissible personal conduct in times of social...
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