Company will not build plant; lawyers hail victory

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A two-year legal battle has ended with the Formosa Plastics Corp's decision not to build a $700 million rayon and pulp processing plant in a low-income, African American area of Louisiana known as 'Cancer Alley.' Environmentalists, civil rights groups and health organizations had claimed that the project constituted environmental racism. The National Law Journal included Wallace, LA's fight with Formosa in the paper's Sept 21, 1992 supplement 'Unequal Protection: The Racial Divide in Environmental Law.'

Plastics materials and resins, Alkalies and chlorine, Economic aspects, Environmental aspects, Environmental policy, Public opinion, Racism, Toxic torts, Environmental justice, Formosa Plastics Corporation U.S.A.

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Republicans take aim at death row lawyers; death penalty resource centers are "obstructionist," say their enemies. Judges call them vital

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A congressional bid to remove all funding for Post-Conviction Defender Organizations (PCDOs) has ignited a controversy over the value and impact these centers have had. Congress established them in 1988 so death-row inmates would have specialized lawyers to speed up the appeals process, but critics of PCDOs say their staffs are devoted to making appeals more expensive and time-consuming. Their supporters claim that closing them down will only bring back a system that has already proven a failure.

Practice, Capital punishment, Legal assistance to prisoners, Prisoner's legal assistance

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Medicaid crime surprises; lawyers scramble to get Congress to repeal law on helping clients with assets

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The orphan provision of the 1996 Kennedy-Kassebaum health reform bill takes effect at the beginning of 1997 and criminalizes and criminalizes asset transfers to qualify the elderly for Medicaid. Both the elderly and anyone who helps them, such as attorneys or financial planners, are liable under the law. Elder attorneys decry the provision, saying it is inappropriate to make criminals of people desparate to find a way to fund long-term care.

Medicaid, Long-term care of the sick, Long term care

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