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CROW CREEK SIOUX TRIBE v. BROWNLEE

Environmental Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
The Water Resources Development Act explicitly provides that federal cultural protection statutes continue to apply on transferred lands, thus an...

COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT v. STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BD.

Environmental Law, Water Law
A "water quality based effluent limit" (WQBEL) for dioxin discharges does not have to be numeric in all cases, and under the circumstances of this...

RIO GRANDE SILVERY MINNOW v. KEYS

Environmental Law, Government Contracts, Water Law
The US Bureau of Reclamation has discretion to reduce deliveries of available water under its contracts with irrigation districts and cities in New...

US v. DEATON

Environmental Law, Water Law
Congress's power under the Commerce Clause to protect navigable waters allows it to regulate the discharge of pollutants that flow into a roadside...

CENT. AND W. BASIN WATER REPLENISHMENT DIST. v. S. CALIFORNIA WATER CO.

Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
Unused storage space in the Central Basin, a groundwater basin, is a public resource, and the plaintiff is authorized to manage it.

UNION OIL CO. v. TERRIBLE HERBST, INC.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law
In a contract dispute over responsibility for pollution clean-up beneath a gas station, withholding assertion of a non-frivolous claim, in reliance on...

IN THE MATTER OF GORDON

Constitutional Law, Environmental Law
The action of the Town of Southampton Coastal Erosion Hazard Board of Review is ripe for judicial review. The Board is bound by the prior negative...

IN THE MATTER OF SPITZER

Environmental Law
Based on the scientific information available at that time, Dept. of Sanitation rationally conducted a study of particulate matter emissions based on...

US v. VELTE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Environmental Law
An individual who, as determined by a jury, purposefully set fire to a national forest, is not entitled to acquittal of the offense of setting fire to...

DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE v. HOGARTH

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, International Trade
The Court of International Trade did not err in concluding that the Interim-Final Rule promulgated by National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is in...