| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Heather J. Tanana |
SECURING A PERMANENT HOMELAND: THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSIBILITY TO PROVIDE CLEAN WATER ACCESS TO TRIBAL COMMUNITIES |
69-APR Federal Lawyer 52 (March/April, 2022) |
Water is life--critical to the health, socioeconomic, and cultural needs of any community. Every household in the United States needs and deserves access to clean, reliable, and affordable drinking water. Yet, tribal communities face high rates of water insecurity. More than a half million people--nearly 48 percent of tribal homes in Native... |
2022 |
| Silvia M. Radulescu |
SEGREGATION, RACIAL HEALTH DISPARITIES, AND INADEQUATE FOOD ACCESS IN BROOKLYN |
29 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 251 (Winter, 2022) |
Despite remarkable medical advances and the steady rise of New Yorkers' overall life expectancies, striking health disparities exist among New Yorkers along racial and economic lines. Poor health is concentrated in predominantly Black and Hispanic poverty-stricken neighborhoods. Within just a ten-mile radius in Brooklyn, there is a decade-long... |
2022 |
| Iselin Gambert |
SHOULD THE GREAT FOOD TRANSFORMATION BE FAKE-MEAT FREE? CONSIDERING STRATEGIES FOR A FUTURE OF FOOD THAT IS KINDER TO PEOPLE, ANIMALS, AND THE PLANET |
6 Business, Entrepreneurship & Tax Law Review 96 (Spring, 2022) |
There is another world, but it is in this one.- Paul Éluard In 2019, former Trump White House adviser Sebastian Gorka infamously denounced advocates of the Green New Deal with the pithy admonishment, They want to take away your hamburgers. This rhetoric is ironic given that none of the politicians supporting the Deal have suggested widescale... |
2022 |
| Samuel T. Ayres |
STATE WATER OWNERSHIP AND THE FUTURE OF GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT |
131 Yale Law Journal 2213 (May, 2022) |
Climate change--bringing worse drought and more erratic weather--will both increase our need for groundwater and shrink the amount available. Managing dwindling groundwater reserves poses stark legal and policy challenges, which fall largely on the states. But in many states, antiquated legal regimes allow for an unrestricted race to pump aquifers... |
2022 |
| Luis Inaraja Vera |
TAKINGS PROPERTY AND APPROPRIATIVE WATER RIGHTS |
44 Cardozo Law Review 271 (October, 2022) |
The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that private property [shall not] be taken for public use, without just compensation. While courts and academics have put considerable amounts of effort into discussing the meaning of taken or public use, they have given far less attention to the phrase... |
2022 |
| Skye M. Walker, 2021-2022 Symposium Editor |
THE CLEAN WATER ACT AT 50: REQUIEM OR RESURRECTION? |
52 Environmental Law I (Summer, 2022) |
Fifty years ago, Congress passed the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948 (later known as the Clean Water Act) in response to a disturbing public health issue: egregious pollution of U.S. waterbodies. The Cuyahoga River fire of 1969, among other events, generated national concern over water quality and set in motion a new regulatory era.... |
2022 |
| Tom I. Romero, II |
THE COLOR OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT: OBSERVATIONS OF A BROWN BUFFALO ON RACIAL IMPACT STATEMENTS IN THE MOVEMENT FOR WATER JUSTICE |
25 CUNY Law Review 241 (Summer, 2022) |
This Article advocates for the adoption of racial impact statements (RIS) in local government decision making, particularly among water utilities. Situated in the larger history of water and climate injustice in Colorado and the arid American West, this Article examines ways that racially minoritized communities engage and contest legal and... |
2022 |
| Stella Emery Santana |
THE LEGAL ASPECTS OF WATER AS A HUMAN RIGHT ACCORDING TO THE 2030 AGENDA: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN BRAZIL AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA |
32 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review 287 (2022) |
This research article demonstrates the legal aspects of water as a human right by utilizing the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development as the primary comparative tool. Brazil and the United States of America (USA) are the objects of research for this legal analysis. Both countries were the subjects of analysis because of the... |
2022 |
| Michelle Bryan |
THE POWER OF RECIPROCITY: HOW THE CONFEDERATED SALISH & KOOTENAI WATER COMPACT ILLUMINATES A PATH TOWARD NATURAL RESOURCES RECONCILIATION |
25 University of Denver Water Law Review 227 (Spring, 2022) |
INTRODUCTION. 229 The Peoples and Their Place. 230 Why This Story Matters. 232 Roadmap for this Article. 235 I. HOW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SET THE STAGE FOR TRIBAL-STATE COMPETITION OVER SCARCE WATER RESOURCES. 235 A. It Began in Montana: The Winters Doctrine and Tribal Water Rights. 235 B. The McCarran Amendment and its Impact on Tribal-State... |
2022 |
| Anne Barnhill, A. Susana Ramírez, Marice Ashe, Amanda Berhaupt-Glickstein, Nicholas Freudenberg, Sonya A. Grier, Karen E. Watson, Shiriki Kumanyika |
THE RACIALIZED MARKETING OF UNHEALTHY FOODS AND BEVERAGES: PERSPECTIVES AND POTENTIAL REMEDIES |
50 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 52 (Spring, 2022) |
Keywords: Race and Ethnicity, Food and Beverage Marketing, Targeted Marketing, Health Equity, Structural Racism Abstract: We propose that marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages to Black and Latino consumers results from the intersection of a business model in which profits come primarily from marketing an unhealthy mix of products, standard... |
2022 |
| Heather J. Tanana, Elisabeth Paxton Parker |
THE UNFULFILLED PROMISE OF INDIAN WATER RIGHTS SETTLEMENTS |
37-FALL Natural Resources & Environment 12 (Fall, 2022) |
When the Ute Bands signed the treaty establishing the Ute Reservation in 1868, the United States promised the Ute people that the Reservation would be a permanent home that would support our people forever. The key to carrying out that promise is water--a fact that the Tribal leadership has always known but which the United States has sometimes... |
2022 |
| Dr. Katharine M. Broton, Charlotte Lenkaitis, Sarah Henry |
UNIVERSITIES AS PRODUCERS, MANAGERS, AND OPPONENTS OF POVERTY: THE CASE OF FOOD INSECURITY ON CAMPUS |
29 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 337 (Spring, 2022) |
Given growing awareness of and actions to address food insecurity challenges in higher education, this paper is a response to the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 2022 Symposium call to examine universities as producers, managers, and opponents of poverty. Bringing together the unique perspectives of a faculty scholar and two recent... |
2022 |
| Rebecca Glenn |
UNREALIZED FEDERAL INDIAN WATER RIGHTS ON THE COLORADO RIVER: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EQUITY AND CONSERVATION |
25 University of Denver Water Law Review 287 (Spring, 2022) |
I. Introduction. 288 II. The Law of the River. 290 A. A Brief History. 290 B. The Drought. 292 III. Federal Indian Water Rights on the Colorado River. 294 A. A Brief History of Federal Indian Reserved Water Rights, Generally. 294 B. Federal Indian Water Rights Settlements and Adjudications on the Colorado River. 297 1. The Colorado Ute Indian Water... |
2022 |
| Timothy D. Lytton |
USING INSURANCE TO REGULATE FOOD SAFETY: FIELD NOTES FROM THE FRESH PRODUCE SECTOR |
52 New Mexico Law Review 282 (Summer, 2022) |
Foodborne illness is a public health problem of pandemic proportions. In the United States alone, contaminated food sickens an estimated 48 million consumers annually, causing 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths. Nowhere is this crisis more acute than in the fresh produce sector, where microbial contamination in growing fields and packing... |
2022 |
| Travis Brammer |
USING LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND MONEY TO PROTECT WESTERN MIGRATION CORRIDORS |
22 Wyoming Law Review 61 (2022) |
I. Introduction. 62 II. Background. 63 A. Importance of Migration Corridors. 64 B. Threats to Migration Corridors. 71 C. The Land and Water Conservation Fund. 74 III. Migration Corridor Conservation Funding. 77 A. Existing Efforts to Protect Migration Corridors. 78 B. Need for Additional Federal Funding. 83 IV. Using LWCF Money. 84 A. LWCF Funding... |
2022 |
| Michael C. Blumm , Michael Benjamin Smith |
WALKER LAKE AND THE PUBLIC TRUST IN NEVADA'S WATERS |
40 Virginia Environmental Law Journal 1 (2022) |
The public expects this unique natural resource to be preserved and for all of us to always be able to marvel at this massive glittering body of water lying majestically in the midst of a dry mountainous desert. --Justice Robert Rose Walker Lake, a terminal desert lake in western Nevada's Mineral County was once home to a thriving trout fishery... |
2022 |
| Abigail R. Brown |
WATER JUSTICE UNDER THE BIG SKY: LOCATING A HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER IN MONTANA LAW |
45 Public Land & Resources Law Review 41 (2022) |
I. Introduction. 42 II. Background: Water Scarcity in Montana's Communities. 44 III. Montana's Prior Appropriation Doctrine and Domestic Preference. 49 A. Prior Appropriation in Montana. 49 B. Domestic Preference: An Exception to the Rule of Priority. 52 C Montana's Legal Authority to Recognize a Domestic Preference: Reconsidering Mettler. 54 IV. A... |
2022 |
| Richard A. Monette |
WATER LAW IN NATIVE NATION TERRITORIES |
95-OCT Wisconsin Lawyer 10 (October, 2022) |
Maintaining access to sufficient clean water sometimes requires resort to the legal system. Determining rights to water on Indian land is a special exercise in choice of laws, jurisdiction, and balance of competing policies and cultures. Indian water rights law is complex, meandering through federal Indian law and several relatively distinct but... |
2022 |
| John A. Kolanz |
WHY COLORADO SHOULD EVALUATE CLEAN WATER ACT SECTION 404 PROGRAM ASSUMPTION |
33 Colorado Environmental Law Journal 55 (Winter, 2022) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 56 I. Background. 57 II. Discussion. 59 A. Why Colorado Might Reach a Different Conclusion This Time Around. 59 1. Removal of Certain Barriers to State Section 404 Program Assumption. 59 a. The Assumable Waters Barrier. 60 b. The Endangered Species Act (ESA) Barrier. 65 c. The Program Administration Funding... |
2022 |
| Anne MacKinnon |
WYOMING WATER LAW GIVES STATE KEY ROLE THROUGH CHANGING TIMES |
45-JUN Wyoming Lawyer 42 (June, 2022) |
Most people interested in water in Wyoming know the name of Elwood Mead, who as a young engineer in the 1880s wrote the core of water law promoted as a model for other states at the time. Mead adopted the common Western principle of prior appropriation, first in time, first in right, that provides that the earliest rights can get water first. But... |
2022 |
| Amanda Chan , Anna Nathanson |
"NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION": PRISON FOOD'S ABSENT REGULATORY REGIME |
29 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 1009 (May, 2021) |
Prison food is poor quality. The regulations which govern prison food are subpar and unenforceable by prisoners, due in large part to Sandin v. Conner and the Prison Litigation Reform Act. This Article aims to draw attention to the dire food conditions in prisons, explain the lax federal administrative law that permits these conditions, highlight... |
2021 |
| Margaret L. Satterthwaite |
ASSESSING THE RIGHTS TO WATER AND SANITATION: BETWEEN INSTITUTIONALIZATION AND RADICALIZATION |
52 Georgetown Journal of International Law 315 (Winter, 2021) |
In the past two decades, the human rights to water and sanitation have emerged, matured, and taken their place at the center of discussions about rights, sustainable development, global health, and climate change. While there was early hope that these rights--especially the right to water--would provide a strong basis for rejecting the... |
2021 |
| George Rice |
COVID-19 & FOOD INSECURITY: HOW THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS EXACERBATED FOOD INSECURITY AND WILL DISPROPORTIONALLY AFFECT LOW INCOME AND MINORITY GROUPS |
21 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 160 (Spring, 2021) |
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted several health disparities that exist between primarily White, affluent populations and low-income and minority communities. While diet-related health disparities have come to the forefront during the pandemic, they have existed for generations, and can be attributed, in part, to systemic inequality in food... |
2021 |
| Ellen Smith Yost |
CURBING A STEALTH HEALTH THREAT: REGULATION OF CHILD-DIRECTED "STEALTH" JUNK FOOD MARKETING |
41 Journal of Legal Medicine 83 (January-June, 2021) |
C1-2Table of contents I. INTRODUCTION. 83 II. STEALTH MARKETING'S IMPACT ON CHILDREN'S JUNK FOOD CONSUMPTION. 84 III. CURBING CHILD-DIRECTED STEALTH MARKETING OF UNHEALTHY FOODS. 89 |
2021 |
| Stephen Wilks |
DISTURBING THE MODERN PLANTATION: HOW COVID-19 IS REINFORCING THE FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN'S FUNCTION AS A SOCIAL SORTING TOOL |
30 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 539 (Spring, 2021) |
Overview. 540 I. The Position of Food Supply Chain Workers Within the US Economy. 546 A. Falling Unemployment Rates and Service Sector Job Growth. 546 B. An Overview of the US Food Supply Chain, Its Workers, and Their Earnings. 548 C. Occupational Hazard. 550 D. Law's Role in Forming the Relationships Between Workers, Pay, and Conditions. 551 II.... |
2021 |
| D'Andra Millsap Shu |
FOOD ALLERGY BULLYING AS DISABILITY HARASSMENT: HOLDING SCHOOLS ACCOUNTABLE |
92 University of Colorado Law Review 1 (Winter, 2021) |
Millions of American schoolchildren of all ages suffer from food allergies, and increasingly, bullies target these children because of their allergies. If a bully exposes a victim to an allergen, food allergy bullying can sicken or kill within minutes. Food allergy bullying is already responsible for many hospitalizations and at least one death.... |
2021 |
| Ernesto Hernández-López |
FOOD OPPRESSION: LESSONS FROM SKIMMED FOR A PANDEMIC |
57 California Western Law Review 243 (Spring, 2021) |
In her book, Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice, Andrea Freeman powerfully illustrates how differences in circumstances shape the decisions Black and White mothers make to feed their infants. Skimmed explores an important topic, which surely impacts each person as newborns--breastfeeding. Specifically, the book presents how White privilege... |
2021 |
| Martha F. Davis |
FREEDOM FROM THIRST: A RIGHT TO BASIC HOUSEHOLD WATER |
42 Cardozo Law Review 879 (June, 2021) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 879 I. A Fifth Freedom?. 887 II. Finding the Human Right to Water. 894 III. The Constitutional Right to Water Around the World. 900 IV. Constitutional Rights to Basic Water under United States Law. 904 Conclusion. 910 |
2021 |
| Dr. Tomaso Ferrando |
GANGMASTERING PASSATA: MULTI-TERRITORIALITY OF THE FOOD SYSTEM AND THE LEGAL CONSTRUCTION OF CHEAP LABOR BEHIND THE GLOBALIZED ITALIAN TOMATO |
14 FIU Law Review 521 (Spring, 2021) |
Italy is the second largest producer of tomatoes in the world after the United States, and it is often considered the homeland of this food. Yet, the Italian tomato is much more than Italian. If one considers the people, geography, regulations, and history behind the golden pome (pomo-d'oro in Italian), there is no other conclusion than it is... |
2021 |
| David B. Schorr |
HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL INFLUENCES IN COLONIAL LEGAL TRANSPLANTATION: WATER BY-LAWS IN BRITISH PALESTINE |
61 American Journal of Legal History 308 (September, 2021) |
Local by-laws were the primary tool for local governments in British-ruled Palestine to exercise their authority, and water was the paradigmatic subject for local legislation. Looking at the diffusion of legal norms in local by-laws in the 1930s and 1940s, the article examines the dynamics of lawmaking in a context characterized both by imperial... |
2021 |
| Brendan W. Williams |
HUNGER GAMES: RACIAL POLITICS AND THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE |
43 North Carolina Central Law Review 103 (2021) |
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) was established by a law signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862, with the benign charge to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and... |
2021 |
| Dr. Daniel Rietiker |
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' RIGHT TO WATER IN TIMES OF COVID-19: ASSESSMENT OF THE PROTECTION UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS LITIGATION |
44 Suffolk Transnational Law Review 1 (Winter, 2021) |
While rivers flow through Navajo lands and are used to irrigate golf courses in Phoenix, the Navajo lack legal entitlement to that water and amidst the coronavirus crisis, cannot even get sufficient plumbing to wash their hands. Indigenous peoples have suffered and continue to suffer from human rights abuses more than the rest of the population.... |
2021 |
| A. Camille Karabaich |
MORE THAN HUNGRY: HOW POLITICAL NARRATIVES BUILT & MAINTAIN HUNGER IN THE UNITED STATES |
27 William and Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice 541 (Winter, 2021) |
Introduction I. Building Hunger A. Housing 1. Housing & the Native Americans 2. Housing During Slavery 3. Housing & Land Ownership 4. Housing & Home Ownership B. Incarceration 1. Incarceration & Hunger C. Inaccessibility 1. Monetary and Time Inaccessibility 2. Geographic Inaccessibility D. Food 1. Food Insecurity 2. Food & Control 3. Food & Health... |
2021 |
| Samia R. Broadaway, Paulina Williams |
RETROSPECTIVE ON DRINKING WATER LITIGATION FROM FLINT, MICHIGAN |
52 ABA Trends 6 (March/April, 2021) |
The facts of Flint, Michigan's water crisis are now well known: in April 2014, the city of Flint, facing serious financial trouble, was supervised by an emergency manager appointed by then-Governor Snyder. The emergency manager was tasked with implementing cost-saving measures. In one such cost-saving effort, the city switched its water supply from... |
2021 |
| Katelyn Healy |
RIGHT TO FOOD GONE IN A SNAP? EVALUATING SECTION 12-4.13C OF THE ILLINOIS PUBLIC AID CODE AND WHETHER IT ADEQUATELY ADDRESSES CITIZENS' "RIGHT" TO FOOD |
53 UIC John Marshall Law Review 1125 (Spring, 2021) |
I. Introduction: Food Insecurity in One of the Richest Countries. 1125 II. Background. 1128 A. The Right to Food in the United States and Timeline Through Federal Food Programs. 1128 1. First Food Stamp Program. 1129 2. The Pilot Food Stamp Program from 1961-1964. 1130 3. The Food Stamp Act of 1964. 1130 4. The 1960s Through the 1980s. 1131 5.... |
2021 |
| Shawn “Pepper” Roussel |
THE CARROT IS THE STICK: FOOD AS A WEAPON OF SYSTEMIC OPPRESSION FOR BLACK CONSUMERS AND THE DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF BLACK FARMERS |
36 Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation 129 (2021) |
Introduction. 129 I. The Confidence of a Mediocre White Guy: Andrew Johnson's Tenure. 133 II. Making It Right: Freedmen's Bureau and Other Failed Experiments. 137 III. Refugees in Their Own Land: Black Americans. 139 IV. Name That Oppression: Food. 141 V. Colonizers Gonna Colonize: Native American Land Dispossession. 145 VI. There's No Such Thing... |
2021 |
| George R. La Noue |
THE RACE CARD IN ARPA'S FOOD SUPPLY DECK |
22 Federalist Society Review 184 (July 12, 2021) |
Note from the Editor: The Federalist Society takes no positions on particular legal and public policy matters. Any expressions of opinion are those of the author. Whenever we publish an article that advocates for a particular position, we offer links to other perspectives on the issue. We also invite responses from our readers. To join the debate,... |
2021 |
| Priya Baskaran |
THIRSTY PLACES |
2021 Utah Law Review 501 (2021) |
The United States, among the wealthiest and most prosperous nations in the world, regularly fails to provide clean, potable water to many of its citizens. Recent water crises occur within communities categorized as Geographically Disadvantaged Spaces (GDS), which often encompass urban and rural areas. What is more, people of color and... |
2021 |
| Jaime Alison Lee |
TURNING PARTICIPATION INTO POWER: A WATER JUSTICE CASE STUDY |
28 George Mason Law Review 1003 (Spring, 2021) |
Water systems throughout the United States are broken, both literally and figuratively. The purpose of water utilities is to provide access to clean and convenient water, which promotes human health and productivity. Yet, a growing number of utilities charge unconscionable prices for water and otherwise carry out policies that decrease, rather than... |
2021 |
| Philippe Cullet , Lovleen Bhullar , Sujith Koonan |
WATER SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW |
17 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 261 (2021) |
energy, environment, food, international law, rights, security, water International law seeks to ensure water security and to prevent or resolve conflicts leading to water insecurity. This relationship is based on a hybrid framework comprising binding and nonbinding instruments. The multiscalar dimensions of water (in)security are recognized, but... |
2021 |
| Joseph Regalia |
A NEW WATER LAW VISTA: ROOTING THE PUBLIC TRUST DOCTRINE IN THE COURTS |
108 Kentucky Law Journal 1 (2019-2020) |
C1-2Table of Contents Table of Contents. 1 I. A Public Trust Bootcamp. 7 II. Some States Have Embraced their Trust Obligations to Meet Evolving Threats to Water Resources; Some Have Shed their Duties Completely. 12 A. We are in a water crisis and adaptive, aggressive action is needed to protect precious water resources, especially in the west. 12... |
2020 |
| Ariana R. Levinson , Chad Eisenback |
COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLES AND FAIR LABOR STANDARDS: VOLUNTEERING FOR FOOD CO-OPS |
2020 Michigan State Law Review 189 (2020) |
Groceries across the United States are leaving the urban core and contributing to the food insecurity with which approximately 40 million people struggle. Food cooperatives, which are owned by members of the community, can help fill this void. The owners often volunteer their time to serve their community by working at the food co-op. The... |
2020 |
| Rachael Jaffe |
EQUITY & ECOLOGY IN SOUTH AFRICAN WATER SYSTEMS |
23 University of Denver Water Law Review 147 (Spring, 2020) |
The South African Constitution promises food, water, and shelter to every South African--three essentials to human life. Yet, not everyone in South Africa has access to these imperative basics. South Africa's idealistic Constitution guarantees the right to sufficient food and water and access to adequate housing. However, despite this promise,... |
2020 |
| Maggie Dickinson, Guttman Community College - CUNY |
FOOD IN CUBA: THE PURSUIT OF A DECENT MEAL, HANNA GARTH (STANFORD: STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020) |
43 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 1 (2020) |
Hanna Garth's ethnography, Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal, opens with the story of Amalia, a Cuban woman living in Santiago de Cuba searching for fresh corn to make hallacas, a traditional Cuban dish similar to tamales. Garth traces Amalia's attempts to locate the corn, crossing back and forth across the city to various vendors.... |
2020 |
| Etienne C. Toussaint , Sabine O'Hara |
FOOD, FITNESS, AND FATALITIES |
46 Human Rights 18 (2020) |
It's not every day that an afternoon run turns into an execution. When most people think about the health impacts of running, they likely call to mind the insights of public health researchers and medical doctors. Scientists tell us, for example, that jogging at a low to moderate pace for 30 minutes a day, five days a week, can reduce the risk of... |
2020 |
| Coty Montag |
LIEN IN: CHALLENGING MUNICIPALITIES' DISCRIMINATORY WATER PRACTICES UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT |
55 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 199 (Winter, 2020) |
Our nation's failing infrastructure and cities' financial woes have led to a dramatic rise in the cost of water across the United States. Many families are unable to pay these higher bills and face disproportionately harsh consequences as a result. While laws vary by jurisdiction, some municipalities place liens on homes for unpaid water debt. Once... |
2020 |
| Morgan Greene |
MITIGATING THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF FOOD INSECURITY IN NEW YORK CITY THROUGH THE SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM |
47 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1081 (June, 2020) |
Introduction. 1082 I. Food Insecurity in New York City and the School Lunch Program. 1086 A. Food Insecurity in New York City. 1086 i. The Prevalence of Food Insecurity and Its Health Impacts. 1087 ii. Food Deserts' Limited Role in Food Insecurity. 1090 B. The National School Lunch Program. 1092 i. History of the National School Lunch Program. 1093... |
2020 |
| Coty Montag |
MUNICIPAL POWER AND RACIAL INJUSTICE: SOLUTIONS FOR WATER DISCRIMINATION |
34-SPG Natural Resources & Environment 16 (Spring, 2020) |
Albert Pickett, a Black man and lifelong resident of East Cleveland, Ohio, has lived without running water in his home for six years. Pickett v. City of Cleveland, No. 19-cv-2911, Complaint at 23 (N.D. Ohio Dec. 18, 2019), naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/Pickett-Filed-Complaint.pdf. His sole income is disability benefits. Pickett owns and lives in... |
2020 |
| Martin A. McCrory , Anjanette H. Raymond |
NAVIGATING MURKY WATERS: THE RISE AND FALL OF CLEAN WATER PROTECTION IN THE UNITED STATES |
29 Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice 143 (Summer, 2020) |
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has past and the first of that which comes . According to water quality and monitoring violations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), an estimated 63 million people in America were exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade. These failures have... |
2020 |
| Michael Chachura |
OLD PIPES IN BRICK CITY: EQUAL PROTECTIONS & THE NEWARK WATER CRISIS |
22 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 123 (2020) |
This note addresses the current water crisis in Newark, New Jersey and the unique ways in which the crisis can be solved. Residents of Newark have been harmed by the crisis and can employ environmental justice and constitutional principles to seek relief. These environmental justice principles could also be applied to other cities when this... |
2020 |