An amicus brief that UCLA School of Law’s Sunita Patel and Jeanne Nishimoto prepared and submitted to the Supreme Court was quoted by Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her opinion in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, a pivotal homelessness decision that the Court delivered in June.
Opponents of the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent “Good Neighbor” Plan claim that these important standards for so-called wandering ozone could destabilize the electric power system by, for instance, retiring coal-fired plants too soon. The rule does no such thing, according to some of the nation’s leading engineers and analysts with expertise in the operation, structure, economics, regulation, and reliability of the U.S. power system.
In the fall of 2021, Sean Anderson ’22 walked into the first day of UCLA School of Law’s California Environmental Legislation and Policy Clinic and took on an assignment that would ultimately become his job — though he didn’t know it at the time.