September 7, 2016
Jones Swanson, Fishman Haygood collaborate to form new international arbitration practice
NEW ORLEANS, LA (September 7, 2016) – Jones, Swanson, Huddell & Garrison, LLC is pleased to announce its alliance with the New Orleans and Baton Rouge firm of Fishman Haygood to develop a new international arbitration practice. Jones Swanson and Fishman Haygood have collaborated for years on numerous projects. This is the first time, however,…
August 17, 2016
Bloomberg: Louisiana’s sinking coast is a $100 billion nightmare for Big Oil
“‘The industry down there has relied on the natural environment to protect its infrastructure, and that environment is now unraveling,’ said Kai Midboe, the director of policy research at the Water Institute of the Gulf. ‘They need to step up.’ Every year in Louisiana, more than 20 square miles of…
January 17, 2017
CBS / 60 Minutes: Town under Siege
“In every other industry, federal law would require that waste to be tracked, labeled and handled as hazardous material. But not the oil industry. Years ago, their lobbyists got a special deal from Congress which lets them pump toxic waste out of a well, label it nonhazardous, and dump it…
November 10, 2016
Supreme Court addresses pleading and proof requirements one more time
On March 27, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court took what could be a landmark action. While the rest of the country’s eye were turned to the oral arguments that day on the constitutionality of DOMA in the case of United States v. Windsor, the Court took a less heralded but…
