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MORTON INT'L, INC. v. A.E. STALEY MFG. CO.

Environmental Law
Where factual issues remain with respect to defendant's role in the release of pollutants at a mercury processing facility, defendant may be...

APWU v. POTTER

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law
In a case arising out of the clean-up of anthrax contamination by the U.S. Postal Service, the district court's dismissal based on Section 113(h) of...

ENVT'L DEF. CTR. v. US ENVT'L PROT. AGENCY

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Water Law
A rule issued pursuant to the Clean Water Act, to control pollutants introduced into the nation's waters by storm sewers, is remanded due to the EPA's...

BIG MEADOWS GRAZING ASS'N v. US

Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate
16 U.S.C. section 3837a neither requires assent to a conservation plan by the seller of a conservation easement, nor requires that the agreement to...

CARRANCHO v. CALIFORNIA AIR RES. BD.

Agriculture, Environmental Law
A plan for the diversion of rice straw to off-field uses, and requiring progress reports, complied with the Connelly-Areias-Chandler Rice Straw...

TREACY v. NEWDUNN ASSOCS., LLP

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Water Law
In an action to stop draining of wetlands without a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers, the district court's finding that 1) the Corps lacked...

MARITRANS, INC. v. US

Admiralty, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The Court of Federal Claims's decision that plaintiff's Fifth Amendment claim alleging that single hull tank vessels were taken by the double hull...

FLORES v. S. PERU COPPER CORP.

Environmental Law, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
Claims alleging that pollution from defendant's copper mining, refining, and smelting operations in and around Peru caused plaintiffs' severe lung...

COALITION OF CONCERNED CMTYS., INC. v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES (CATELLUS RESIDENTIAL GROUP)

Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Denial of an action challenging city's certification of an environmental impact report and approval of a housing development project, pursuant to...

LAUB v. US DEP'T OF THE INTERIOR

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Government Law, Public Utilities, Water Law
An action under the National Environmental Protection Act ("NEPA")against federal and state government defendants, challenging a proposed interagency...