Contactors working on the rooftop of a Texas hospital will have to halt their construction project for an indefinite period ...

referring to a 1978 landmark case that ruled that the Tennessee Valley Authority was in violation of the ESA in building a dam due to the discovery of the snail darter fish in the Little Tennessee ...

The year was 1978. Hank Hill was a feisty local lawyer who had already gained litigation experience by trying (and winning) the famous snail darter case. (That was the first case to use the ...

known as the snail darter. The court roundly rejected the argument that continued funding of the dam implicitly repealed the ESA: We recognize that both substantive enactments and appropriations ...

In the 1970s, the snail darter, an unassuming, two-inch-long fish, became one of the most controversial symbols of environmental protection in American history. Declared endangered under the ...

exploring how the figure of the fool evolved between the Middle Ages and the 19th century A lawsuit to protect the snail darter from the Tellico Dam in Tennessee offered the first real test of the ...

author of a national casebook and The Snail Darter and the Dam: How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River. “Even beyond the remarkable bricks and mortar additions to the ...

A few days before the horrendous fires started in Los Angeles, the New York Times carried an article about the huge 1970s controversy over the snail darter that delayed construction of the Tellico Dam ...

You wait months, even years to see the holy grail - the nine-darter - and then they come along like Brighton buses with two in one incredible Premier League night. The scenes were something else ...