Gurumurthy Kalyanaram, Dean, former and former professor NYIT and UT Dallas and Expert Witness - Reports on The Lawsuits against Union Carbide (US) and British Petroleum (UK)

Gurumurthy Kalyanaram, Dean and former NYIT and UT Dallas professor, and expert witness, Gurumurthy Kalyanaram reports on the two similar lawsuits but with dramatically different adjudications.

Two industrial disasters have brought two different outcomes in the US courts.

First, let us review the Clean Water Act lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice and others against British Petroleum (BP) for liabilities in the explosion of Deepwater Horizon and massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010.

Gurumurthy Kalyanaram, Important US Supreme Court Decisions on Social Policy Matters Issued in 2014

Gurumurthy Kalyanaram – Former Dean and former NYIT and UT Dallas professor Gurumurthy Kalyanaram reports on three important US Supreme Court decisions on law and lawsuit and public policy matters issued in 2014.  Here is an executive summary of these decisions. Gurumurthy Kalyanaram UT Dallas
On Campaign Finance, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission Gurumurthy Kalyanaram Lawsuit

A lawsuit filed by McCutcheon against Federal Election Commission, and supported by Republican National Party, found its way to the US Supreme Court.  The Court held that that the overall limits for contributions from individuals to candidates and political parties was against freedom of expression and therefore, unconstitutional.  The Court, however, did not disturb base limits of $2,600 per election.  The Court had never before had struck down a federal contribution limit. Gurumurthy Kalyanaram NYIT