Nicholas A. Robinson

Law professor at Pace University's Elisabeth Haub School of Law who was David Sive's law clerk during the 1969 Hudson River Expressway appeal, one of the founding cases of American environmental law. Matters to this vault as the named eyewitness whose 2014 Lloyd K. Garrison memorial lecture places Joseph Sax at the September 1969 Airlie House conference where participants explicitly invoked the NAACP Legal Defense Fund as the model for aggressive environmental litigation — the closest source found so far to confirming the vault's standing, still-open question about the Clean Air Act citizen suit's civil-rights-litigation origins, without actually closing it.

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