PAL 209 - Environmental Law

 
Description
This course is an introduction to the Environmental Amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution and it’s administrative agency the Department of Environmental Resources and its interactions with federal law and the Environmental Protection Agency. The student acquires; a working knowledge of how regulations insure compliance with laws requiring clean streams, sewage facilities, wetlands, water resources, air pollution control, solid waste management, hazardous sites cleanup, storage tanks and other spill prevention, mining regulation, oil and gas regulation and protections from radiation and other hazardous situations.

1. Identify Environmental legislation.
2. Process all necessary paperwork to successfully prosecute any environmental law problem.
3. Research any environmental law topic with successful results given competent attorney direction.

1. Exclusionary Rule
2. Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
3. Limits of Exclusionary Rule
4. Harmless Error
5. Fourth Amendment—Arrest
6. Search and Seizure
7. Warrants
8. Warrant Execution
9. Plain View Rule
10. Administrative Inspection
11. Border Searcher
12. Wiretapping
13. Sixth Amendment
14. Fifth Amendment
15. Miranda
16. Pretrial Identification
17. Remedy
18. Pretrail Procedures
19. Gerstein Hearings
20. Pretrial Detention
21. Grant Juries
22. Speedy Trial Rules
23. Defendant Competency
24. Trial
25. Right to Jury, Counsel
26. Burdens/Tactics
27. Pleas/Sentencing
28. Legal Research

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