LATEST SUMMARIES

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, WATER LAW
• City of Portland, Oregon v. EPA

LABOR & EMPLOYMENT LAW
• United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 204 v. NLRB

LATEST SUMMARIES

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, WATER LAW
City of Portland, Oregon v. EPA, No. 06-1068
Petition for review challenging respondent's rule regulating microbial contaminants in drinking water and requiring subject cities to take several steps to eliminate the parasite Cryptosporidium from their drinking water is denied over claims that respondent: 1) improperly conducted a required cost-benefit analysis; 2) provided inadequate notice and opportunity for public comment; 3) ignored significant comments on the draft rule; 4) failed to use the best available science; and 5) issued a final rule unsupported by the record. Read more...

LABOR & EMPLOYMENT LAW
United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 204 v. NLRB, No. 06-1318
Finding that employer committed several unfair labor practices in violation of the NLRA during union's unsuccessful effort to organize a plant, petition for review filed by union, challenging dismissal of two of its claims, is denied over claims that: 1) statements by high-level company management constituted unlawful threats of plant closure; and 2) the company's decision to train a security camera on union organizers created an illegal impression of surveillance. Read more...