PAL 209 - Environmental Law Credits: 3 3 Lecture Hours
Prerequisites: PAL 101
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. Learning Outcomes Upon successful completion of the course, the student will:
- Identify Environmental legislation.
- Process all necessary paperwork to successfully prosecute any environmental law problem.
- Research any environmental law topic with successful results given competent attorney direction.
Listed Topics
- Exclusionary Rule
- Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
- Limits of Exclusionary Rule
- Harmless Error
- Fourth Amendment—Arrest
- Search and Seizure
- Warrants
- Warrant Execution
- Plain View Rule
- Administrative Inspection
- Border Searcher
- Wiretapping
- Sixth Amendment
- Fifth Amendment
- Miranda
- Pretrial Identification
- Remedy
- Pretrail Procedures
- Gerstein Hearings
- Pretrial Detention
- Grant Juries
- Speedy Trial Rules
- Defendant Competency
- Trial
- Right to Jury, Counsel
- Burdens/Tactics
- Pleas/Sentencing
- Legal Research
Reference Materials Contemporary texts, software, and appropriate A-V materials. Approved By: Kingsmore, John Date Approved: 01/13/1997
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