Everglades Litigation and Restoration 

The University of Miami School of Law Library houses an extensive collection of legal and scientific materials underlying years of environmental litigation over the Florida Everglades. The cases  contained in this repository collectively constitute one of the  longest and most complex pieces of litigation in the United States.

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The online portal presents significant materials culled from a vast  compendium of materials gathered from a long line of legal, regulatory, and public policy disputes concerning ecosystem degradation in the nation's largest and most important sub-tropical wilderness.  The Law Library's holdings include over one  million pages of pleadings, deposition and hearing transcripts, exhibits, scientific data and agency reports.  Another one million microfilm reel frames cover voluminous document productions.   

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Materials

•  Depositions            •  Pleadings          •  Productions
•  Hearings                •  Case law           •  Data                    •  More...    

Calendar

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November 14, 2003 The Urban Environment League and Tropical Audubon Society Presents a Conference:  "Tug of War? Private Gain vs. The Public Good?"             Miami Women's Club, Miami, F l

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We welcome your interest in the Everglades and are eager to assist in your research at the Law Library or on-line.  Please do not hesitate to contact us with your questions or suggestions.   

Recent Developments 

Expert to monitor cleanup


Photo: David Tucker 2003

A federal judge in Miami agreed with environmental groups and an Indian tribe Wednesday to appoint an expert to monitor Everglades pollution cleanup, in a defeat for the Bush administrations in Washington and in Tallahassee.  
 30-Oct-03 Miami Herald  

>> Read Judge Moreno's order [1mb pdf file]

Everglades restoration project starts today
 

Everglades restoration -- the part that involves the physical moving of dirt -- officially starts today with work to restore 55,000 acres of a long-defunct development outside Naples called Southern Golden Gate Estates. Gov. Jeb Bush will take part in a groundbreaking for the first of 68 projects planned as part of the $8 billion state-federal restoration effort that will span several decades.

 16-Oct-03 Miami Herald

Hoeveler removed from Glades case over remarks    
 24-Sept-03 Palm Bch Post

Glades cleanup setback predicted  
 24-Sept-03 Miami Herald

Federal Judge scrutinized over Glades remarks 
 23-June-03 Miami Herald

Hoeveler:  1992 deal on Glades cleanup stands 
23-May-03  Miami Herald   

More >>  Judge Hoeveler News Page

Legislation/Litigation

•   Judge Moreno's 10/29/03 order granting appointment of  Special Master in Everglades water quality case, U.S. v. SFWMD, 88-1886-Civ-Moreno.     >> Read order
[1mb pdf file] 
•   Florida 2003 Legislative session.            
•   Bush signs wetlands law 12/02/02   
•   11th Circuit reverses and remands lower court dismissal of Miccosukee  complaint   
•   00-15703 decision   
•   Growth Management bill (CS-SB 382)  
•  Federal Judge rules in U.S. v. SFWMD, extends  Everglades cleanup deadlines 
•  Fl Supreme Ct agrees to hear Barley v SFWMD
•  House passes restoration plan
•   Fl Forever Work Plan 



Legal Articles

•   Water, Water Everywhere?      
•   Implementing Everglades Restoration      
•   Translating Science into Law: Phosphorus  Standards  
•   Environmental Law, Mercer Law Review, 1998; Vol. 49, No. 4    
•   Miccosukee and Environmental Law
•   Alligators and Litigators


 

Conferences - Meetings   

•   November 4, 2003
A public meeting to receive comments concerning the initial Draft Lake
Okeechobee Protection Plan (LOPP) for reaching compliance with the
mandated Lake Okeechobee Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for phosphorus.   
Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Que.  Clewiston, FL.   

Scientific reports, articles 

More News

•  Florida proposes standard to measure water quality in Everglades   
21-Feb-03

•  War over manatee protections 
12-Feb-03

•  Everglades bill to displace Cubans 
17-Feb-03  

•  U.S. Interior secretary backs key 'Glades land buyout               
11-Jan-03

•  Water restrictions lifted    

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