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Armour v. Indianapolis

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities, Water Law
In an Equal Protection action brought by homeowners to obtain a refund of money paid to a city to fund a public works sewer project after the city...

California Pines Property Owners Ass'n v. Pedotti

Agriculture, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
In a dispute between a property owners association and a rancher over water rights governed by a contract between the parties that obligated the...

Sumner Hill Homeowners' Ass'n, Inc. v. Rio Mesa Holdings, LLC

Attorney's Fees, Evidence, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies, Water Law
In a dispute between owners of property in a subdivision and a developer over access to a river, it is held that: 1) the developers' claims of public...

Abatti v. Imperial Irrigation District

Environmental Law, Water Law
In a petition proceeding in which plaintiffs maintained that an irrigation district failed to comply with CEQA in adopting regulations for the...

Salmon Protection and Watershed Network v. County of Marin

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Water Law
In a peition action challenging the adequacy of an environmental impact report, the trial court's judgment dismissing a complaint in intervention is...

Matter of Town of Waterford

Environmental Law, Government Law, Water Law
In a CPLR 5601 proceeding brought by a town to challenge the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)'s denial of portions of the town's request...

Sackett v. EPA

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Water Law
In a suit by landowners seeking declarative and injunctive relief, contending that a compliance order from the EPA, which stated that their...

Consolidated Irrigation District v. City of Selma

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Water Law
On appeal of a trial court's grant of an irrigation district's petition for a writ of mandate challenging a city's use of a mitigated negative...

Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. v. Hudson River-Black River Regulating Dist.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities, Water Law
In a suit by a gas and electric power company against a water district for declaratory judgments regarding the district's assessment scheme, the...

San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority v. Dep't of the Interior

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Water Law
In a suit by water agencies contending that the Department of Interior abused its discretion in failing to apply certain releases of water against the...