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This portal presents selections from the University of Miami School of Law Library's 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. 

The collection contains over one million pages of pleadings, deposition and hearing transcripts, exhibits, scientific data and agency reports; one million microfilm reel frames covering extensive document productions in the federal and state actionsSee our site map for online availability of these materials.    

   Judge Moreno's 6/01/05 order requiring special master to hold a hearing on the issue of remedies  and submit a report to the court.  [pleading #1936]   
[742 kb pdf file


 
S-9 permit case before Supreme Court: South Florida Water  Management District v. Miccosukee, No. 02-626     

  Supreme Court 23-March-04  decision in S-9 permit case [full text 210kb pdf file]  [excerpts html]
 

  Programmatic Regulations - Final Rule [412 kb pdf file]

  Judge Moreno's Special Master appointment order 
2003 [1mb pdf file]


  Judicial changes in Everglades water quality lawsuit, United States v. SFWMD, No.88-1886 (S.D. Fla.):          

  88-1886 Docket Sheet - Pleadings #1960 - 2025   
[486 kb PDF file
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Weisskoff:  A Tale of Two Models: IMPLAN and REMI on the Economics of Everglades Restoration
Part 1Part 2
[PDF files]
  

  2004 Everglades Consolidated Report

•   Draft Pilot Project Design Report (PPDR) and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for:  Lake Okeechobee ASR Pilot Project Hillsboro ASR Pilot Project Caloosahatchee (C-43) River ASR Pilot Project

 
Paul F. Foley Missing the  Point with Point-source “Addition” Sematics:...  

Editorial: Hope for the Everglades   
11-Nov-07 NY Times

 
Congress turns back Bush's veto  09-Nov-07 NY Times

 Bush vetoes Water Bill citing cost  03-Nov-07 NY Times

Effort to save Everglades falters  02-Nov-07 NY Times 

Artificial Sweetener law suit settlement turns sour  07-Jun-07 NY Times
 

   Report of the Special Master [to the Court].  July 5, 2006   
[1.4 mb pdf file



   Appendix A of Report of the Special Master [to the Court].  July 5, 2006.  SFWMD exhibit 74 - chart - "Everglades Water Quality Projects" 
[1.0 mb pdf file


 

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 December 8 - 9, 2007    

Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy hosts conference:      

Measuring Success: Ecosystem Restoration in the 21st Century

University of Miami School of Communications' International Building - Room 2055   

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Alberto F. Montero Valdes  

Everglades Litigation Repository Manager 


University of Miami School of Law Library
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updated:
03/15/2008