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INDIANA FOREST ALLIANCE, INC. v. US FOREST SERV.

Environmental Law
The U.S. Forest Service complied with the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Forest Management Act in reaching a decision to implement...

STEVENSON v. E I DUPONT DE NEMOURS & CO.

Environmental Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
Plaintiffs can recover under Texas trespass law based on contamination by emission of heavy metal particulates, and evidence showed actual...

CITY OF ABILENE v. US ENVTL. PROT. AGENCY

Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Public Utilities, Water Law
The EPA had authority under the Clean Water Act to issue permits imposing certain conditions on cities' ability to discharge pollutants from their...

RANCHO VIEJO, LLC v. NORTON

Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Application of the Endangered Species Act to a commercial housing development which threatened the continued existence of an endangered species was a...

CRUTCHFIELD v. COUNTY OF HANOVER

Agriculture, Construction, Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
The Army Corps of Engineers is entitled to approve an applicant's development proposal under a less stringent Nationwide Permit regime, even if the...

BEAR LAKE WATCH, INC. v. FED. ENERGY REGULATORY COMM'N

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Public Utilities
The FERC did not err in finding that, because a reservoir was not necessary or appropriate to the operation of power projects, it did not have...

LIMAR SHIPPING LTD. v. US

Admiralty, Environmental Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Transportation
The implied discretionary function exception existed and was properly applied to a Suits in Admiralty Act claim against the U.S., alleging that...

NORTHWOODS WILDERNESS RECOVERY, INC. v. US FOREST SERV.

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The Forest Service's approval of a timber project without adherence to a statutorily-mandated environmental analysis was arbitrary and capricious...

NAT'L PARKS CONSERVATION ASS'N v. NORTON

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Because the National Park Service has neither taken any action with respect to the management of structures in the Florida Keys that can be deemed...

THE FUND FOR ANIMALS, INC. v. NORTON

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, International Law
A Mongolian government agency satisfied the requirements for intervention as a matter of right under FRCP 24(a)(2), in a case concerning application...