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VLS in the News, Weeks of March 1, March 8

March 15, 2010

  • Newsday, VPR, the Boston Globe and other media carried an AP advance on March 13, 14 and 15 about the seven cases to be heard by the Vermont Supreme Court during its annual session at VLS on March 17.
  • In its March 14 academic round-up, the U.S. Supreme Court's blog (SCOTUSBlog) includes a new article in the Yale Law Journal by Associate Professor Michael McCann, who writes about the American Needle v. NFL anti-trust case.
  • The Rutland Herald did a story March 14 on a dispute over phosphorous pollution in Lake Champlain, which is one of the cases to be heard by the Vermont Supreme Court at VLS.
  • Assistant Professor Michele Martinez Campbell talked to the Keene Sentinel on March 11 about a death penalty case involving a federal kidnapping statute.
  • In an AP story on March 11 in the Oregonian and more than dozen other news outlets, Professor John Echeverria commented on an Oregon Supreme Court ruling on a Klamath Basin water dispute.
  • Bloomberg News quoted Associate Professor Michael McCann in March 9 and March 10 stories about an NFL player's lawsuit over leaked drug-test results.
  • The Valley News talked to Assistant Professor Michele Martinez Campbell on March 9 about the Brooke Bennett kidnapping case and jurisdictional issues pertaining to the Adam Walsh Act.
  • VPR talked to Professor Pat Parenteau on March 8 about the EPA's efforts to clean up the Long Island Sound, including asking sewage treatment plants in Vermont to help reduce nitrogen pollutants.
  • Adjunct Professor Peter Bradford talked to Mother Jones on March 8 about President Obama's plan to finance construction of new nuclear power plants.
  • Professor Pat Parenteau talked to the Boston Globe on March 8 about highly publicized errors in a landmark report about human-caused global warming.
  • Associate Professor Michael McCann discussed the legal hazards of flying hotdogs in a post on the TortsProf Blog on March 8.
  • Professor Cheryl Hanna spoke to WPTZ-TV on March 8 about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear a case involving an anti-gay church's protest at military funerals. Church members also have protested in Vermont.
  • The Burlington Free Press talked to Professor Cheryl Hanna on March 7 about proposed legislation that would prohibit Vermont hospitals from spending money on advertising and marketing.
  • The Valley News profiled Associate Professor Jackie Gardina in a March 7 story that focused on her commitment to repealing the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
  • Assistant Professor Don Kreis urged Vermont lawmakers to emphasize government openness in a March 6 op-ed piece in vtdigger.org.
  • An ESPN story March 6 included Associate Professor Michael McCann, who discussed performance-enhancing drugs as part of a panel discussion at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.
  • Assistant Professor Don Kreis discussed nuclear power development with the Voice of America on March 5.
  • The Burlington Free Press reported March 4 and the AP on March 5 that the Vermont Supreme Court, durng its session at VLS on March 17, will hear an appeal from a man serving life imprisonment for murdering a University of Vermont student in 2006.
  • In a March 3 op-ed column in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Adjunct Professor Peter Bradford wrote about the effort to repeal Minnesota's ban on new nuclear reactor construction.
  • Mark Cooper's research on funding for nuclear power was cited in a March 3 story in the Brattleboro Reformer. Cooper is a senior research fellow for economic analysis at the VLS Institute for Energy and the Environment.
  • Professor Cheryl Hanna wrote about women as judges in an op-ed piece March 3 in Seven Days. She also commented on the appointment of Christina Reiss as the first woman to serve on the federal bench in Vermont.
  • True/Slant talked to Associate Professor Michael McCann for a March 2 story on the legal woes of former baseball pitcher Roger Clemens.
  • Professor Michael Dworkin talked to WCAX-TV for a March 1 story on the possibility of Vermont Yankee going to federal court in an effort to be relicensed.
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