{"id":474,"date":"2011-07-19T11:53:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T15:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/?p=474"},"modified":"2013-02-21T16:12:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T21:12:28","slug":"clinic-prevails-on-motion-to-dismiss-in-solar-licensing-litigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/clinic-prevails-on-motion-to-dismiss-in-solar-licensing-litigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinic Prevails on Motion to Dismiss in Solar Licensing Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Superior Court Justice Janet Sanders today denied the defendant&#8217;s motion to dismiss in the case <em>Carroll v. Board of State Examiners of Electricians<\/em>. \u00a0In this case, the Clinic is representing general contractors whose ability to continue contracting for and supervising rooftop solar photovoltaic installations has been threatened by a decision of the Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Electricians that would give electricians a monopoly over all aspects of solar PV work. \u00a0The plaintiffs are challenging the Board&#8217;s action as being inconsistent with the electrical licensing statute and a <em>de facto<\/em> regulation improperly adopted without notice and comment. \u00a0The opposition to the motion to dismiss was argued by Clinic student Nicholas McDaniel (JD &#8217;11).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superior Court Justice Janet Sanders today denied the defendant&#8217;s motion to dismiss in the case Carroll v. Board of State Examiners of Electricians. \u00a0In this case, the Clinic is representing general contractors whose ability to continue contracting for and supervising &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/clinic-prevails-on-motion-to-dismiss-in-solar-licensing-litigation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4638,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81265,81316,57371],"tags":[78632,46129],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emmett-environmental-law-and-policy-clinic","category-clinic-news","category-past-events","tag-mcdaniel","tag-solar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}