Steve Harvey Law LLC is pleased to represent the Plaintiffs in this important environmental justice matter which was filed in federal court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The complaint alleges that the defendant, a poultry rendering facility, discharges over...
Business Disputes: It’s What We Do
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Suit Alleges Sunoco Drilling Contaminated Homeowner’s Water Well
Suit Alleges Sunoco Contaminated Water Well Here is a report on a case Steve Harvey Law LLC filed last week. We are proud to represent our client, David W. Anspach, III, as he seeks justice for the contamination of his water well caused by pipeline activities on his...
Supreme Court Kiboshes Kids’ Climate Claims (For Now)
On Friday, October 19, Chief Justice Roberts issued an administrative stay order in Juliana v. U.S., a lawsuit over climate change in federal court in Oregon against the federal government with a group of children as plaintiffs....
Lawyers’ Climate Change Campaign Reaches West Coast for Earth Day
In early 2014, a small group of lawyers in Philadelphia began a campaign to enlist the support of the legal community for action on climate change. That campaign took root with the leadership of the Philadelphia Bar Association under the name A Call to the Bar:...
Leading Jurists, Scholars, and Advocates Say Unrelenting CO2 Emissions Violate International Law and Must Be Reduced to Prevent Catastrophe
A group of prominent jurists, scholars, and advocates on March 1, 2015, adopted the Oslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations. The Principles are based on the undeniable fact that “[t]he threats [to the Earth from climate change] are grave and imminent,”...
How I Decided to Market My Law Practice by Becoming a Leader on Climate Change
Last week, Law360 ran a story on me and the new non-profit I founded. For access to the article, click here if you are a Law360 subscriber or Google “Law360 Steve Harvey Climate Change”. Here is how this came about. In 2013, I left my position as a partner at one of...