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Akiak Native Comm. v. EPA

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Water Law
In a petition for review of the approval by the EPA of the State of Alaska's application to assume responsibility for administration of portions of...

Sonoma County Water Coalition v. Sonoma County Water Agency

Administrative Law, Government Law, Water Law
In plaintiffs' challenge to the elements of a county water agency's 2005 Urban Water Management Plan, trial court's grant of plaintiffs' petition for...

Sackett v. EPA

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Water Law
In an action seeking review of an EPA compliance order alleging that a land parcel was a wetland subject to the Clean Water Act (CWA) and that the...

Kirby Lake Dev., Ltd. v. Clear Lake City Water Auth.

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Contracts, Government Law, Water Law
In developers' suit against a water authority for inverse condemnation, the judgment of the court of appeals in favor of the water authority is...

Modesto Irrigation Dist. v. Gutierrez

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Water Law
In an action by irrigation districts challenging the decision of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to list the steelhead, a type of Pacific...

US v. Agosto-Vega

Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Environmental Law, Evidence, Water Law
Conviction of a company in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and its owner and principal officer for violating criminal provisions of the Clean Water Act is...

Northwest Env. Def. Ctr. v. Brown

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Environmental Law, Water Law
In an action claiming that defendants violated the Clean Water Act (CWA) and its implementing regulations by not obtaining permits from the...

Hines v. California Coastal Comm'n

Administrative Law, Construction, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
In plaintiffs' petition for a writ of administrative mandate seeking to overturn the approval by the County Board of Supervisors (Board) of a coastal...

Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Fla. Dept. of Env. Protection, Inc.

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
In an action challenging the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's approval of permits to restore a portion of beach eroded by several...

Greene v. Marin County Flood Control & Water Conservation Dist.

Administrative Law, Elections, Government Law, Public Utilities, Water Law
In a property owner's suit challenging the election results of a passage of the flood control district's proposal of a storm drainage fee fund...