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Highland Springs Conference etc. v. City of Banning

Environmental Law
In consolidated California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) actions that successfully challenged the certification by defendant of an environmental...

Friends of Animals v. Clay

Transportation, Administrative Law, Environmental Law
In an environmental action arising under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, 16 U.S.C. section 703 et seq., the district court's grant of summary judgment...

Pacific Shores v. Dept. of Fish and Wildlife

Water Law, Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Government Law
In an inverse condemnation action, in the unique situation where a state agency assumes control of a local flood control process, and it determines to...

US v. Estate of Hage

Water Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Judges & Judiciary, Agriculture
In a grazing rights action, the district court's judgment for defendants is vacated and remanded where: 1) defendants' unauthorized grazing of cattle...

Group Against Smog and Pollution v. Shenango, Inc.

Environmental Law
In an environmental citizen suit, the district court's grant of defendant's motion to dismiss is affirmed on alternative grounds. The court held that...

North Coast Rivers Alliance v. Kawamura

Environmental Law, Agriculture
In a case involving the approval of a program to control an invasive pest, the light brown apple moth (LBAM), asserting California Environmental...

Cal. Building Industry Assn. v. Bay Area Air Quality Mgmt.

Environmental Law, Administrative Law
In a case examining the circumstances under which the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), Pub. Resources Code section 21000 et seq., requires...

Hot Rods v. Northrop Grumman Systems Corp.

Property Law & Real Estate, Environmental Law, Contracts
In an appeal of a judgment in favor of plaintiff, in a case involving an environmentally compromised property it purchased from defendant, the trial...

Cascadia Wildlands v. Thrailkill

Environmental Law
In an environmental action, the district court's denial of plaintiff environmental groups' motion to enjoin the Douglas Fire Complex Recovery Project...

Dole Food Co. v. Superior Court

Injury & Tort Law, Environmental Law
In mass tort litigation arises out of an environmental investigation which revealed that soil beneath a housing tract in Carson, California, was...