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Proposed rewrite (COI disclosure)
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Conflict-of-interest disclosure: I am a grandson of David Sive. In line with WP:COI I am not editing the article directly and am instead proposing this rewrite here for review and implementation by uninvolved editors. I have tried to keep everything sourced to reliable, independent, published sources and to avoid promotional language; please scrutinize accordingly and revise as needed.
I hold copies of several primary documents (period New York Times articles, the New York Law Journal obituary, an Environmental Law Reporter article by the subject, and an ELI Report). I have cited these but have not reproduced their text. I have deliberately NOT used family eulogies as sources, as they are not independent or reliably published.
A short summary of the most important discrete factual corrections (which could be made even without adopting the full rewrite) is in the collapsed section below, followed by the full proposed text.
SUMMARY OF DISCRETE FACTUAL CORRECTIONS
These are the standalone fixes most worth making regardless of whether the full rewrite is adopted. Each is sourced in the draft below.
1. STORM KING / SCENIC HUDSON ROLE & DATE.
Current article implies Sive "argued" Scenic Hudson as a principal and cites it as "(1971)." Correction: Sive JOINED the case in 1966; Lloyd Garrison (Paul, Weiss) led the team and Albert Butzel was also counsel. Sive's documented contribution was assembling the expert environmental witnesses and cross-examining Con Edison's witness Gilmore Clark. The case citations are 354 F.2d 608 (2d Cir. 1965) [the landmark standing decision] and 453 F.2d 464 (2d Cir. 1971). Source: New York Law Journal obituary (Stashenko, 2014).
2. AMCHITKA CASE NAME & CITATION.
Current article names "Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, Inc. v.
Schlesinger" and cites 404 U.S. 917. Both the D.C. Circuit case Sive argued
and the Supreme Court order exist, but they should be distinguished:
- Sive argued Committee for Nuclear Responsibility v. Seaborg, 463 F.2d 783
(D.C. Cir., decided Oct. 5, 1971).
- The U.S. Supreme Court then denied a stay 4-3 as Committee for Nuclear
Responsibility, Inc. v. Schlesinger, 404 U.S. 917 (Nov. 6, 1971).
Source: Justia/Leagle court records; NYT (Graham, Nov. 7, 1971).
3. FIRM CHRONOLOGY & RETIREMENT.
Add: Winer, Neuberger & Sive (1962) became Sive, Paget & Riesel in 1980; Sive retired in 2006. Source: New York Law Journal obituary (2014).
4. 1958 CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN (currently omitted entirely).
Sive ran as the Democratic candidate in New York's 28th congressional district in 1958 against Republican incumbent Katharine St. George, and lost. Source: NYT (Dean, Oct. 14, 1958).
5. WAR SERVICE DETAIL.
Add: Sive served as a wireman (communications) and was wounded laying wire on the Remagen Bridge. NOTE: the NYLJ obituary's statement that he attended "City College of New York" before service appears to be an error; Brooklyn College (BA 1943) is confirmed by multiple sources and should be retained.
6. NRDC FOUNDING YEAR — SOURCE CONFLICT, HANDLE CAREFULLY.
Sources variously give 1968 and 1970. Recommended treatment: "a founding member of the Natural Resources Defense Council (incorporated 1970)," noting the organizing activity began in the late 1960s, rather than asserting a single year in Wikipedia's voice.
7. FIRST ELI AWARD (1984) and PACE MOOT COURT named in his honor — both
citable additions. Source: ELI Report (Cruden, 2011).
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David Sive (September 22, 1922 – March 12, 2014) was an American attorney, environmentalist, and professor of [[environmental law]] who has been described as a pioneer of [[United States environmental law]].[1][2] He helped litigate the Storm King case, which established that citizens could have legal standing to challenge projects on aesthetic and environmental grounds, and he was a founding figure in several national environmental organizations, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Law Institute. A partner in the New York firm that became Sive, Paget & Riesel, he also taught environmental law for decades at Columbia Law School, Pace Law School, and other institutions. Early life and educationSive was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 22, 1922, the son of Abraham Sive and Rebecca (née Schwartz) Sive.[3] As a young man he developed an interest in hiking, camping, and the writings of Thoreau, Emerson, and the English Romantic poets, particularly [[William Wordsworth]].[4] In a 1941 letter to the sports editor of The New York Times, written when he was twenty, he urged outdoors columnists to give more attention to hiking, mountain climbing, and camping rather than to hunting and fishing.[5] He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1943 with a degree in political science.[6] He had enlisted in the [[United States Army]] in 1942 and was called up in 1943, shortly before graduation. He served on the front lines in Europe, including in the Battle of the Bulge, as a wireman in a communications unit; according to his former law partner Daniel Riesel, he was wounded twice, once while laying communications wire on the Remagen Bridge over the Rhine, and was awarded the Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster.[1][7] A fellow Storm King lawyer, Albert Butzel, recalled that Sive carried a copy of Thoreau's Walden during the campaign across western Europe.[1] After his discharge in 1945, Sive enrolled at Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar and received the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1948.[8][1] Early legal career and 1958 congressional campaignOne of Sive's early cases to gain press attention was a 1951 [[Small claims court|small-claims]] dispute, Sive v. Newman, in which an [[Appellate Term of the Supreme Court of the State of New York|Appellate Term]] upheld his argument that the owner of an illegally double-parked car could be held liable for damage to a vehicle maneuvering around it.[6] In 1958 Sive, then a Rockland County resident and Democrat, ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York's 28th congressional district against the long-serving Republican incumbent Katharine St. George. The district was a Republican stronghold and St. George, seeking a seventh term, was heavily favored; Sive lost.[9] Environmental law careerIn 1962 Sive helped found a New York City law firm with an early specialty in environmental matters, Winer, Neuberger & Sive. The firm became [[Sive, Paget & Riesel]] in 1980 and remains active in environmental law; Sive retired in 2006.[1] He served as chairman of the Atlantic Chapter of the Sierra Club, which he helped organize in the early 1960s.[1][10] Sive was among the lawyers who represented the Sierra Club in 1966 when the Internal Revenue Service revoked the club's tax-exempt status after it campaigned against dams in the Grand Canyon; the controversy is widely credited with sharply increasing the club's membership and national profile.[3] In the 1980s, Sive and his firm represented the New York City Convention Center Development Corporation in the environmental proceedings for construction of the [[Jacob K. Javits Convention Center]].[1] Notable casesStorm King. Beginning in 1966, Sive joined the legal team in [[Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission]], the litigation opposing a pumped-storage power plant that Consolidated Edison proposed to build at Storm King Mountain on the Hudson River. Lloyd Garrison led the team, which also included Albert Butzel; Sive represented the Sierra Club and is credited with assembling the expert environmental witnesses and cross-examining Con Edison's landscape witness.[1] The [[United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit|Second Circuit]]'s 1965 decision held that the citizens' group had standing as an "aggrieved" party to challenge the project on environmental and aesthetic grounds—rather than only on the basis of economic injury—and is widely regarded as a foundational decision of modern environmental law.[1][11] Con Edison ultimately abandoned the project.[1] Hudson River Expressway. Sive represented citizens in litigation that helped block the proposed Hudson River Expressway, a highway that would have required filling sections of the Hudson River along the Westchester County shore.[1][12] Amchitka nuclear test. In 1971 Sive argued Committee for Nuclear Responsibility v. Seaborg before the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit|D.C. Circuit]] on behalf of conservation and antiwar groups seeking to halt the underground nuclear test code-named Cannikin on Amchitka Island, Alaska.[13] The U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay the test in a 4–3 decision, Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, Inc. v. Schlesinger, 404 U.S. 917 (1971), with Justices [[William J. Brennan Jr.|Brennan]], Douglas, and [[Thurgood Marshall|Marshall]] dissenting; the test proceeded, but the government abandoned further blasts at the site.[14][1] Mohonk Trust. Sive represented the plaintiff in Mohonk Trust v. Board of Assessors of the Town of Gardiner, 47 N.Y.2d 476 (1979), in which the New York Court of Appeals held that land owned by a trust and maintained as a wilderness area open to the public could qualify as "charitable" and "educational" and so be exempt from real-property tax. In his briefs and oral argument Sive invoked Wordsworth's lines, "One impulse from a vernal wood / May teach you more of man, / Of moral evil and of good / Than all the sages can." He later wrote that it was the most satisfying case of his career.[4] Sive also litigated cases strengthening the "forever wild" protections of the Adirondack Park, and lost one of the earliest cases brought under the National Environmental Policy Act, Concerned About Trident v. Schlesinger, 400 F. Supp. 454 (D.D.C. 1975).[1][15] Academic careerSive taught litigation and environmental law for many years at [[Columbia Law School]] and joined the faculty of Pace Law School in 1995.[16] He also taught as a visiting faculty member at several other universities and, by one account, lectured at more than eight law schools over his career.[17] Pace named its moot court competition in his honor.[17] The Pace Law Library holds the David Sive Manuscript Collection, which includes documents from the Storm King, Amchitka, and Mohonk cases.[1][18] Environmental organizationsSive was a founding member of the Natural Resources Defense Council (incorporated 1970) and of the Environmental Law Institute (ELI); he chaired ELI's board for many years and was the first recipient of the ELI Award, in 1984.[17][3] He was also a contributing founder of Friends of the Earth and of Environmental Advocates of New York, and served on the board of the Sierra Club and of the [[New York City Bar Association|Association of the Bar of the City of New York]], among other organizations.[1][19] Awards and recognitionSive received awards from the Environmental Law Institute, the Sierra Club, the New York State Bar Association, The Nature Conservancy, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and other organizations.[17][20] He has frequently been described, including by [[The Wall Street Journal]], as a "father of environmental law," though the term has also been applied to contemporaries such as Joseph Sax.[2][12] LegacyAfter Sive's death, Columbia Law School established the David Sive Memorial Fund, supported by a gift from Sive, Paget & Riesel and administered by the school's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, to fund lectures and events on environmental law; an annual David Sive Memorial Lecture is associated with the fund.[21][22] The Environmental Law Institute maintains a "David Sive Society" giving tier.[3] Selected writingsPersonal lifeSive lived for many years in Rockland County, New York, and kept a place in the Catskill Mountains near Margaretville that he returned to throughout his life.[9][1] He was married to Mary Sive and had five children. He died on March 12, 2014, at a hospice in West Orange, New Jersey, at the age of 91.[1][24] References
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