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Sive, Paget & Riesel (SPR) is a law firm located in New York City primarily focusing on land use and environmental law. The firm is among the oldest environmental law firms in the United States, tracing its origins back over fifty years. The firm has been consistently ranked in the top tier of environmental law firms in New York.〔http://www.chambersandpartners.com/usa/Firms/70415-71141〕 SPR is the successor firm to Winer, Neuberger and Sive, founded in New York City in 1962. SPR practices all aspects of environmental law, including litigation and environmental impact review, and represents numerous real-estate developers and municipalities in the New York metropolitan area. SPR counts among its clients the New York State Urban Development Corporation and the Natural Resources Defense Council. SPR founding partner David Sive, who died in March 2014, was described by the Wall Street Journal as the “Father of Environmental Law.” In 1988, the New York Times called Sive “a pioneer in litigation to end pollution of New York's Hudson River” and “an elder statesman of environmental law.” In videotaped comments commemorating the firm's 50th anniversary, Sive recalled the firm's involvement in the “beginning of the modern environmental movement” and stated that “we took part in the creation of a new body of law.” The firm, according to him, was the first “to bring any action under the Environmental Policy Act,” in a case involving Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. The firm also“established...the first committee on Environmental Law with the New York City Bar Association, which may have been the first in the country.” ==Important cases== The Wall Street Journal has described SPR founding partner David Sive as having “won landmark rulings that stopped developments in coastal waters and helped keep parts of the Catskills and Adirondacks wild.” Professor Nick Robinson of Pace University stated that Sive, instead of despairing “about pollution and despoliation of nature...set out to do something about it. His early cases saved the Hudson River waterfront at Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow from having a super-highway put in the river bed off-shore. He did this before environmental legislation got adopted. Laws today prohibit a siting a road in such a valuable river bed and estuaries.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://rockland.lohudblogs.com/2014/03/14/david-sive-father-of-environmental-law-and-pace-law-professor-dead-at-91/ )〕 Beginning in the 1960s, Sive was involved in a landmark litigation to halt construction of a power plant on Storm King Mountain on the Hudson River. The case was among the first to establish a basic first principle of environmental law, legal standing to sue. The Storm King Mountain case "helped establish that aesthetics rather than direct economic damage could establish standing to bring an environmental lawsuit."〔 The case resulted in the establishment of Scenic Hudson, an environmental watchdog group.〔 Sive played a key role in the successful fight against the Hudson River Expressway.〔 However Sive lost a 1971 case before the U.S. Supreme Court, in which he sought to stop a nuclear test explosion in Alaska.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sive, Paget & Riesel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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