For six years, Waltzer Wiygul & Garside’s Robert Wiygul has represented the Sierra Club in its challenge to the Mississippi Power Company’s Kemper Project, a multi-billion dollar power plant that will strip mine lignite as a fuel. In 2012, Robert earned the national William O. Douglas Award from the Sierra Club, in part for his tireless work on the case, [...]
By Paul Purpura, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Westwego's elected officials Monday night continued sounding their alarm over a company's plan to ship coal through the West Jefferson city in uncovered rail cars, to a shipping facility in Plaquemines Parish. The council last month enacted a resolution, expressing its unhappiness over a proposal to roll coal through the city. Now [...]
One of the unique features of life in South Louisiana is the relaxed pace. We tend to pause more than people in the rest of the country to celebrate and reflect upon the bounty around us—friends, family, nature, and tradition. As summer takes hold, days are ideally spent at crawfish boils, on the beach, fishing, or relaxing indoors, taking life [...]
If you work in the construction industry it is likely that at some point, someone has refused to pay you. Whether you are a contractor, subcontractor, or employed by a contractor or subcontractor, it is important that you understand the power of a lien. A lien can provide you with powerful protection in a situation where you are unjustly denied [...]
In modern culture, attorneys and law firms are often cast in a negative light: either a joke’s punch line, or worse – as predators. In many instances the criticism may be well deserved. However, such a cynical view of the lawyer ignores the support the legal community has provided and continues to provide to social movements. Community lawyers can provide [...]
In all but the simplest cases, litigation inevitably devolves into protracted battles over the right to sue itself. Lawsuits drag on for years without ever reaching the underlying dispute, as governments and corporations hide behind a minefield of legal principles designed to close the doors of justice and deprive the people of their day in court. When all else fails, [...]
