Berkeley Law’s Environmental Clinic, on behalf of environmental nonprofit Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, filed a lawsuit Friday against the U.S. Navy and Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, regarding the cleanup of Superfund site Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, Daily California, 7/3/24
Berkeley Law clinic files suit against Navy, EPA for radioactive contamination
‘Ticking time bomb’: Suit claims ‘egregious’ failures in SF shipyard cleanup
An environmental advocacy group is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Navy for “egregious violations” during its cleanup of radioactive toxins at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. San Francisco-based Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice and the UC Berkeley Law Clinic filed the lawsuit Friday, calling for, among other demands, 100% of the land to be retested for radioactive contaminants. They claim the Navy was obligated to do so, but never did, San Francisco Examiner, 7/2/24
U.S. Navy to be sued by environmental group, represented by the clinic, over cleanup of radioactive materials at S.F. shipyard
Representatives from Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice have told the Chronicle that the group plans to file a lawsuit in federal court on Friday naming the U.S. Navy, which is responsible for cleaning the roughly 500-acre shipyard on the city’s southeastern waterfront in preparation for its planned redevelopment, and the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, which oversees the effort, San Francisco Chronicle, 6/28/24
Cleanup of San Francisco Superfund site has been badly mishandled, clinic lawsuit alleges
An environmental justice nonprofit filed a lawsuit on Friday alleging “egregious” mishandling of the cleanup of radioactive contamination at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, one of the nation’s largest and most polluted Superfund sites, KQED, 6/28/24
Clinic Students Work to Defend Library Patrons’ Right to Privacy
Berkeley Law, 5/31/2024
The Robbins Collection welcomes Mark Brustman as new Library Collections Assistant
We are delighted to welcome Mark Brustman as our new Library Collections Assistant. Since April, he has served as the point person for scholars working in the reading room and plays an integral role in our ongoing digitization project and our continuing preservation and conservation efforts among other things. An expert translator, Mark brings knowledge […]
Art Beyond Copyright Introduction
In their introduction to the Winter 2024 edition of Grey Room, editors Amy Adler and Noam Elcott argue that the incentives of copyright protection are meaningless in the context of visual art where “authenticity” is the measure of value and copies are essentially worthless.
Canvas, Issue 11
This month we highlight news of recovery of stolen artifacts, trends in the art market, the instability of the crypto world, artistic freedom, and more.
Utah Should Abolish All Juvenile Court Fees, Fines and Costs Says New Report from PAC National Partner Gault Center
The Gault Center, 05/15/2024
Trademark Law and the Contingent Art Object
UCLA Law Professor Xiyin Tang discusses the nexus between contemporary art on the one hand, and branding and trademark law on the other — a connection increasingly strengthened by the transformation of contemporary art into a kind of luxury good where the artist becomes the brand.