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Save Tara v. City of W. Hollywood

Administrative Law, Construction, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Under some circumstances an agency's agreement allowing private development, conditioned on future compliance with the California Environmental...

Sustainability of Parks, Recycling and Wildlife Legal Def. Fund v. County of Solano Dep't of Res. Mgmt.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a challenge to proposed revisions to a solid waste facility permit for local landfill, denial of writ petition to compel defendant-county to hold a...

Chihuahuan Grasslands Alliance

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Government Law, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an environmental suit involving the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) sale of oil and gas mineral leases on public lands in a grasslands area...

Sierra Club. v. Franklin County Power of Illinois, LLC

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Public Utilities, Remedies
In a suit under a provision of the Clean Air Act (CAA), seeking to enjoin defendant from building a power plant, summary judgment for plaintiffs and...

Gray v. County of Madera

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a challenge to defendant-county's decision to issue a conditional use permit and mining permit, approve rezoning, to certify an environmental...

Missouri Coalition for the Environment v. Fed. Energy Regulatory Comm'n

Administrative Law, Construction, Environmental Law, Public Utilities
Petition for review of the FERC's authorization of the reconstruction of the Taum Sauk Pumped Storage Project, a hydroelectric generating plant, is...

Sycamore Indus. Park Assocs. v. Ericsson, Inc.

Environmental Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit to force the seller of a property to remove and dispose of asbestos insulation, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where: 1)...

Andrews v. Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.

Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a diversity case against defendant-corporation Columbia Gas, judgment in favor of defendant is affirmed over claims of error that: 1) the...

Salmon Spawning & Recovery Alliance v. Gutierrez

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, International Law
In a challenge by conservation groups to the U.S. being part of a treaty allegedly allowing Canadian overharvesting of salmon covered by the...

N. Idaho Cmty. Action Network v. US Dep't of Transp.

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Transportation
In a challenge to a proposed highway project, grant of summary judgment for defendant is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) defendants...