TO A HIGH COURT-Five Bold Law Students Challenge Corporate Greed and Change the Law, by NEIL THOMAS PROTO
This book tells the whole story of United States of America v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures. How, in September 1971, at the George Washington University Law School, George Biondi, John Larouche, Kenneth Perlman, Peter Ressler, and the author, formed Student’s Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures, with the acronym: SCRAP. Now we know, here rose the ideas of environmental protection, sparked by these law students and their visionary zeal.
The book narrates the existing lack of interest in these things, exemplified by a court' observation that the transportation industry should be called upon to support the control of pollution created by another industry. It also discusses appealingly, the personal lives of SCRAP’s members, and their romantic interests as well as philosophical beliefs. The resourcefulness, determination, and audacity shown by these ones at the prime of their youth and idealism, also come alive in these pages. The comments and thoughts noted by the judges, how each sought to understand the controversy, throws ample light on the whole issue.
This is a thrilling chronicle of battle scenes inside and outside courtrooms, powerful law firms, rail roads, and environmental armies. An index adds to its value as a reference. And in the end, SCRAP comes out as gold.
