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March 21, 2018
The Clinic drafted a memo for a local government exploring the use of riparian corridors to prevent flooding and protect water quality. Students reviewed riparian corridor ordinances in cities across the country, identified best practices, and researched potential legal claims against cities that have created such corridors. -
March 21, 2018
Challenging highway construction through Corpus Christi neighborhood
The Clinic co-counseled with Texas RioGrande Legal Aid on a Civil Rights Act Title VI complaint challenging the construction of a new highway through a low-income neighborhood already burdened with pollution sources. Clinic student conducted legal research and drafted the complaint. A settlement was reached that provides a voluntary relocation program for up to 450 […] -
March 21, 2018
Improving the enforceability of water conservation requirements
Surface water in Texas is allocated to users through a permit system. As part of obtaining a permit, Texas wholesale water providers are required to submit a water conservation plan and the means for implementing and enforcing that plan. Wholesale providers must also ensure that their contracts with customers require those customers to develop and […] -
March 21, 2018
Enforcing Clean Water Act prohibition on the filing of wetlands without a permit
The Clinic co-counseled with a local law firm to represent Galveston Baykeeper in its challenge to the filling of wetlands by a Houston area developer without a permit. Clinic students sent the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers a request for a jurisdictional determination, drafted a Clean Water Act notice of intent to sue, and provided […] -
March 20, 2018
Working for the Clinic was a great experience. Much of the environmental law curriculum is focused on theory—what does it mean to be “requisite to protect the public health” and the like. But in the Clinic, you have the opportunity to work with the people behind citizen suits, meet with community activists living on industrial […] -
February 16, 2018
Promoting the Right to Health of Persons living with HIV/AIDS in Guatemala
In partnership with the Dell Medical School, the Clinic prepared an amicus brief to present to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Case 12.484, Cuscul Pivaral et al., with regard to Guatemala: http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/media_center/PReleases/2016/191.asp. The case involves the State’s international responsibility for violating various rights established in the American Convention, to the detriment of 49 […] -
February 6, 2018
UT Report Criticizes How City Of Houston Conducts Apartment Inspections
UT Report Criticizes How City Of Houston Conducts Apartment Inspections -
February 6, 2018
New report reveals extensive deficiencies in Houston’s apartment safety standards
New report reveals extensive deficiencies in Houston’s apartment safety standards -
February 6, 2018
New report calls out Houston’s ‘apartment epidemic’ -
February 6, 2018
Houston’s apartment safety measures ‘severely inadequate,’ UT study finds
Houston’s apartment safety measures ‘severely inadequate,’ UT study finds
