Hydraulic fracturing in Illinois—What is an owner to do?By William J. AnayaReal Estate Law, September 2013Hydraulic fracturing operations present many opportunities to owners, but those opportunities involve risks that must be understood, quantified, analyzed, accepted or rejected or shared.
Recent environmental casesBy William J. Anaya, Gene Schmittgens, & Alison K. HaydenEnvironmental and Natural Resources Law, September 2011Recent cases of interest to environmental lawyers.
Call to arms: A 21st century call to professionalism for real estate lawyersBy William J. AnayaReal Estate Law, June 2004Many of our younger colleagues consider me a dinosaur or an anachronism-a lawyer from a different age who actually ordered and reviewed abstracts of title and prepared scores of title opinion letters in the practice of law, and not as an academic exercise in some ancient social ritual at the Smithsonian.
Wetland regulation since the demise of the “Migratory Bird Rule”—more muddy water?By William J. AnayaReal Estate Law, March 2002* The Corps of Engineers' authority under the federal Clean Water Act was clearly limited by the U.S. Supreme Court in Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. United States Army Corps of Engineers, 531 U.S.159, 121 S. Ct. 675 (2001), but, one year later, the regulatory boundaries are less clear now than before.
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