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Bill Jordan

A Justice With Empathy Sees All Sides

June 5, 2009

Check out this Op-Ed piece in The Akron Beacon Journal written by guest blogger Bill Jordan. Bill is the associate dean of Akron Law and is also a C. Blake McDowell, Jr. Professor of Law.

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Court says states may require more air pollution monitoring than USEPA – but dissent says this disrupts the regulatory scheme

August 22, 2008

It looks like a classic battle between treehuggers and industrial polluters, between liberals and conservatives, between Democrats and Republicans. As we will see, however, the truth is more complicated.

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Remembering John Seiberling – An Akron Hero

August 4, 2008

John Seiberling means so much to me, to Akron, and to this country. As I knew him, he was deeply patriotic and committed to a better world, both for the environment and for human kind, which he believed could not thrive without protecting and relating closely to the environment.

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3d Circuit Voids FCC Penalty for Super Bowl Halftime Naughtiness – Upholding Fairness and Reasoned Decisionmaking, Not Nudity on TV

July 23, 2008

You may remember the halftime show at the 2004 Superbowl, in which Justin Timberlake ended a suggestive duet by tearing the covering off of Janet Jackson's breast. Her breast was revealed for "nine-sixteenths of one second," but the result was outrage. The FCC, which received 542,000 complaints, imposed an "indecency" penalty of $550,000 on CBS [...]

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The Great Lakes Compact – Now It's Up to Congress to Prevent the Water Wars

July 16, 2008

At long last, the eight states of the Great Lakes Basin and two Canadian provinces have all agreed to the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Water Resources Compact. Unlike the fast-growing regions of the South and Southwest, we are blessed with the single largest source of fresh water in the world – the Great Lakes. As [...]

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