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International Environmental Law
Stephen L. Kass, a partner at Carter Ledyard & Milburn and an adjunct professor of international environmental law at Brooklyn Law School, writes: Representatives from 193 nations, the United Nations and several thousand NGOs descended on Copenhagen in early December to try to agree on a coordinated international strategy to limit global climate change and help the most vulnerable nations adapt to its now inevitable impacts. I attended the second week of the conference, eager to see whether, after 17 more years of climate science since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was first adopted, international negotiations, pressure from NGOs at home and abroad, and a more enlightened U.S. administration, the world was ready for effective long-term action on climate change. The answer at Copenhagen was: not yet, but almost.Enforcing 'Bad Boy' Guarantees in Nonrecourse Financings
James Gadsden, a partner at Carter Ledyard & Milburn, writes that since the Second Department rejected the guarantors' argument in 'G3-Purves Street v. Thomas Purves' that a bad boy guarantee was essentially a liquidated damages provision that imposed an unenforceable penalty, it now appears that New York courts will enforce nonrecourse carve outs against the guarantors, a welcome development for both lenders and borrowers in the commercial context.Picking Up the Tab for Corporate Defense
In April, as former Cendant Corporation chairman Walter Forbes went on trial for alleged accounting fraud, Cendant's law firm, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, revealed that his legal bills had topped $1 million per month.Government Property Acquisition in Floodplains After Hurricane Sandy
In their Domestic Environmental Law column, Christine A. Fazio, a partner at at Carter Ledyard & Milburn, and Ethan I. Strell, a senior associate at the firm, write that FEMA's acquisition process is subject to environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act, but the Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013 adds a new provision for 'streamlined' environmental review procedures.'Lafler v. Cooper': Supreme Court Revolutionizes Habeas Corpus
Alan S. Lewis, a partner at Carter Ledyard & Milburn, writes that a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling is likely to be a boon for a not insignificant class of habeas petitioners who can show that the challenged state court decision seems to misapply the pertinent standard will receive de novo review under the habeas statute's "contrary to" prong, and consequently, will be more likely to prevail in their quest for a writ of habeas corpus.Trending Stories
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