The Lake Tahoe Basin saw continued environmental improvement over the last four years, but faces major challenges from climate change, according to a draft 2015 Threshold Evaluation Report released by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.
Attorneys from firms including Squire Patton Boggs LLP and Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons LLP who defended Ford Motor Co. in litigation over a fatal rollover are appealing a Georgia state judge's sanctions that preceded a second trial and record-setting $1.7 billion punitive damages verdict against the automaker, in a move that opposing counsel called "really weird."
Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani T. Willis launched a volley against Republicans' investigation into her criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump, telling Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, that he's either ignorant of the law or abusing his authority as House Judiciary Committee chair to try to obstruct and interfere.
Feinstein, along with the late Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), were longtime partners in the fight to preserve Tahoe. She helped create the inaugural Tahoe Summit in 1997, and attended subsequent summits for over 25 years.
The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency defended its landmark 2012 Regional Plan to restore Lake Tahoe’s environment in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Tuesday during oral arguments against a lawsuit by the Sierra Club and the Friends of the West Shore organization.