Talk:Buffalo Creek flood

message: I remember how in my first year of law school we were asked to read his book, The Buffalo Creek Incident.  After finishing it, all the naive 1L students, including myself, were so enamored with Mr. Stern's unselfish acts and struggle for truth, justice, and reparations for the innocent who were wronged by the very naughty corporate conglomerates.  Our professor went on to say that once we leave this law school, many of us will lose their innocence, be corrupted, and turn to the dark side -- we should always think of Mr. Stern and rise above him.  What?!!! Blasphemy! Mr. Stern seemed like the second coming of Christ to me, a savior of the common man! Then, our professor dropped the bombshell on us.  Apparently, Gerald M. Stern became chief corporate counsel for Exxon in the 80s, and that he was the first to downplay Exxon's liability in the Exxon Valdez Spill.  A study in contrasts, right? Can anyone confirm this, and if true, add this to the article or make a stub under Gerald M. Stern?
Mr. Stern had nothing to do with Exxon.  He was General Counsel of Occidental Petroleum. 34tl33k34 (talk) 21:49, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gerald M. Stern 

message: Trauma at Buffalo Creek
This scholarly journal discusses the Buffalo Creek disaster in more detail. Some of the information that i read states that over 125 people lost their lives that day. There was around 132 million gallons of sludge made of water and coal waste that flooded Buffalo Creek. This sludge raced through Buffalo Creek at speeds up to thirty miles per hour causing massive devastation to the sixteen near by towns leaving around four thousand people homeless. (Antshep (talk) 01:30, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Recommended reading

message: We read this book in our first year law school class as well.  Apparently there is a nationwide Civil Procedure curriculum that involves learning the rules of civil procedure using the Buffalo Creek Disaster as a sample case.  An example of this can be found at the Computer Assistant Law Instructor at www.cali.org
76.171.7.133 03:11, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use in Law Schools 

message: According to the admittedly biased book, the feds themselves were stating the dam was sub-standard,as was the state; ¿How then does the dam fail "four days" after the federal inspection? (I may be confused here, but I really don't think so.)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.25.7.35 (talk) 14:20, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A facility or structure can be deemed 'substandard' but still be deemed 'acceptable'. Acceptible just means it meets minimum qualification for use. Substandard means it's not up to the usual construction standards.  But obviously, the facility should not have even been judged 'acceptable'.--71.38.172.171 (talk) 00:17, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: ¿Declared Safe?

message: I've tagged the paragraph regarding the song "This Protector" by The White Stripes as possible original research. I looked up the lyrics and they're completely ambiguous, bordering on incomprehensible. In fact the only clear connection of any kind that I can see is that West Virginia is mentioned. That's it. The only reason I didn't just delete the paragraph outright is because this seems to be a semi-popular fan theory judging by the Google hits I got when I cross referenced the two items and I thought perhaps The White Stripes had made the connection themselves at some point. Then again, it could also be because of this very article. So, "citation needed" is what I'm saying. ProgHead777 (talk) 12:06, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The White Stripes? 

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