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Fall 1971. Richard Nixon is in the White House. Five George Washington University law students form Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP). SCRAPs intent: to challenge the corporate greed of the nations railroads and the failure of the government to protect the environment, especially through compliance with the newly enacted National Environmental Policy Act. Author Neil Thomas Proto, then SCRAPs chair, draws from contemporaneous notes and transcripts and builds a narrative with photographs and actual dialogue to take you through eight months of battle against the government, powerful law firms, the nations railroads, and national environmental organizations-all while SCRAPs members are studying law, only blocks from the disquiet in the White House and amid the threat and reality of anti-war demonstrations. Having enough of the deceit and the empty commitments of change, in spring 1972, SCRAP sues the United States. As success emerges, SCRAPs adversaries stymied, the critical legal question remains: Does SCRAP have standing to sue-the right to be in court at all? That question reaches the Supreme Court of the United States.
Author: Neil Thomas Proto
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 04/14/2023
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781039180499
Language: English
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