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Maiden Creek Associates LP v. US Dep't of Transp.

Transportation, Environmental Law
In an action for declaratory and injunctive relief concerning a plan to improve a highway, brought pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act...

In Re: Asbestos Products Liability Litigation

Transportation, Injury & Tort Law
In a civil suit on behalf of plaintiff and her deceased husband's estate, asserting state law causes of action arising from her husband's exposure to...

Massachusetts Delivery Ass'n v. Healey

Transportation, Labor & Employment Law
The express preemption provision of the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994 (FAAAA), 49 U.S.C. section 14501(c)(1), preempts the...

City of Mukilteo v. US Dep’t of Transp.

Transportation, Environmental Law, Administrative Law
In an environmental action, the petition for review challenging the FAA’s decision not to require an environmental impact statement before commencing...

Flight Attendants in Reunion v. Am. Airlines

Transportation, Labor & Employment Law
In a labor action concerning the integrated seniority list of flight attendants following the merger of defendant American Airlines and U.S. Airways,...

Town of Portsmouth v. Lewis

Transportation, Environmental Law, Government Law
In a town's suit against federal and state transportation agencies and officers for collecting tolls on the Sakonnet River Bridge in violation of the...

Friends of Animals v. Clay

Transportation, Administrative Law, Environmental Law
In an environmental action arising under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, 16 U.S.C. section 703 et seq., the district court's grant of summary judgment...

Carrasquillo-Ortiz v. American Airlines, Inc.

Transportation, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit concerns the proper application of an aspect of Article 3 of Puerto Rico's Law No. 80 involving the statutory severance, called a "mesada,"...

Nat'l Fed'n of the Blind v. United Airlines

Class Actions, Transportation, Civil Rights, Commercial Law
In a class action raising California anti-discrimination claims against defendant over its use of automatic kiosks inaccessible to blind travelers,...

Rogers v. US

Property Law & Real Estate, Transportation, Government Law
In a consolidated appeal arising from claims by abutting landowners that the United States effected a taking of their property without just...