To a High Court: Five Bold Law Students Challenge Corporate Greed and Change the Law Proto Neil Thomas
To a High Court: Five Bold Law Students Challenge Corporate Greed and Change the Law Proto Neil Thomas Fall 1971. Five George Washington University law students form Students Challenging Regulatory…
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To a High Court: Five Bold Law Students Challenge Corporate Greed and Change the Law Proto Neil Thomas
Fall 1971. Five George Washington University law students form Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP). Richard Nixon is in the White House.
Author Neil Thomas Proto, then SCRAP's 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 nation's railroads, and national environmental organizations-all while SCRAP's members are studying law, only blocks from the disquiet in the White House and amid the threat and reality of anti-war demonstrations. SCRAP's intent: to challenge the corporate greed of the nation's railroads and the failure of the government to protect the environment, especially through compliance with the newly enacted National Environmental Policy Act. Having enough of the deceit and the empty commitments