“I took it upon myself to look at the campus and noticed all the native vegetation and how well it was done,” Budd said.
What she saw were littoral shelves filled with pickerelweed, arrowhead and various lilies lining retention ponds, native plants providing food and protection for wildlife and the oasis known as SpeedBridge.
The bridge is named after one of Arthrex’s medical devices, which is used for surgical repair of soft tissues such as rotator cuff and Achilles tendon tears.
Working with a landscape architect, the company was able to use the native plants on the property to create natural habitat for wildlife.
Updated: 5:16 PM CDT May 5, 2021
MEMPHIS, Tennessee Memphis is mourning the passing of a civic giant.
Arnold Perl, a respected and noted attorney who oversaw the construction of the FedExForum, died Tuesday. Perl also served as Chairman of the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority for 16 years.
In a statement Local 24 News, Congressman Steve Cohen said, “Arnold Perl’s critical and thoughtful leadership of the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority and his work to bring the FedExForum into existence transformed our city. His leadership in the Jewish community was profound. Modern-day Memphis would not be what it is without him. I extend my condolences to his wife, Mary Lynn, his daughters and his extended family and his many friends. His was a life well lived and Memphians will always remember him.”
Following the United States Supreme Court’s decision in
Atlantic Richfield Company v. Christian, commentators warned the decision would allow a new category of state law actions challenging EPA-approved clean-ups. One year later,
Christian does not seem to have opened the flood gates to new litigation, but it may serve to narrow federal jurisdiction over environmental clean-ups.
In
Christian, 98 Montana landowners, who were within the boundaries of a Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) Superfund site, brought suit in state court asserting various state law claims related to pollution damage to their property. Part of the damages sought were “restoration” damages, which were meant to restore the landowners’ property to its pre-contaminated condition. Under Montana law, a landowner may seek not only tort damages for diminution in property value, but also restoration damages, even if such efforts are greater than those
Biden’s travel ban on India beggars belief
The blanket rule affects a vast swath of Indians simply because they happen to be in a country fighting a grave health crisis
On April 30, US President Joe Biden imposed a travel ban on Indian non-immigrant visa-holders, including the H1-B, L-1, their dependants, business travellers, and visitors. Students on the F-1/M-1 visas earned an automatic exemption if their program starts August 1 or later.
The blanket rule affects a vast swath of Indians simply because they happen to be in a country fighting a grave health crisis. The ban exempts US citizens and permanent residents as though the virus can tell the difference.
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Between 1934 until 2020, split-jury convictions in which only 10 out of 12 jurors’ “guilty” vote is required to convict someone of a felony, rather than a unanimous vote were permissible in Oregon courtrooms. That changed last April, when the United States Supreme Court ruled the practice was unconstitutional. Oregon, the only remaining state in the country to allow non-unanimous convictions, was forced to change course moving forward after that ruling in