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About the Everglades
Litigation Collection
The University of Miami School of Law Library
possesses an important collection of Everglades litigation documents.
This collection is housed in the Archives and Special Collections room
on the fourth floor of the Law Library building. The director, Alberto
F. Montero Valdes, can be reached at (305) 284-4093 or at amontero@law.miami.edu.
His office is located in room 490.
This enormous collection of legal and scientific
material was donated to the Law School on July 26, 1994, by the United
States Attorney's Office. The present collection represents the
materials gathered during the course of close to fifty lawsuits filed in
state and federal fora over water quality issues involving the Florida
Everglades in which the federal government was involved.
This site has been developed to provide the general
public with an understanding of the legal, scientific and public policy
issues surrounding the preservation and stewardship of one of nature's
unique ecosystems.
Culled from the Law Library's Archives and Special
Collection's extensive Everglades Litigation Collection, the site's
contents present only a sample of its holdings.
Everglades@law.miami.edu, is the largest known collection of legal
documents concerning the preservation and restoration of the Everglades
available to the public.
Site Layout
Collection
Highlights:
The Everglades Litigation Collection contains over one
million pages of pleadings,
deposition
and hearing
transcripts, exhibits, scientific data and agency reports; one million
microfilm reel frames covering extensive document
productions in the federal and state actions.
A 100 megabyte, 150,000 record, bibliographic database
which indexes over three quarters of the material produced during
litigation is undergoing technical upgrades and will soon be available
for searching.
We are in the process of converting 31 megabytes of
deposition & hearing transcript files to HTML. In the future
153 megabytes of scientific data produced during discovery relating to
hydrology, nutrient loading, statistical analysis, remote sensing,
restoration, economic analysis, and other issues will also be made
available.
3,119 slides, 50 video tapes, hundreds of maps and
photographs, 20,000 pages of news and magazine articles round out the
rest of the collection's contents.
While, it would be impossible to make the entire
contents of the collection available on-line, we are attempting to
provide a representative sample of the pleadings, transcripts, exhibits,
and other documents that would provide a balanced overview of the
position's of the diverse interests involved in Everglades-related
litigation.
To see our on-line material, go to our Contents
or Documents
sections. We thank you for visiting our site. If you have any
questions or suggestions please do not hesitate to contact
us.
Research Protocols
Presently, the Collection is available for use by
students, faculty and the general public at the Law Library.
Appointments are required to be made at least 24 hours in advance.
The Collection's database
is accessible for on-line searching. This web site represents, the Law
Library plans to make selected parts of the Collection available on-line
in full-text. Please visit regularly as we will add more material.
If you would like to make an appointment, have any
questions, and would like to know more about the Collection, please
contact the Everglades Litigation Internet Project Director, at (305)
284-4093 or amontero@law.miami.edu
Credit:
Everglades photograph courtesy Philip
Greenspun
03/25/03
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