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Sango Int'l L.P. v. US

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, International Trade
A determination that plaintiff's imported gas meter swivels and gas meter nuts are within the scope of an antidumping order covering certain malleable...

County of Orange v. Barratt Am.

Administrative Law, Construction, Government Law
Order requiring defendant-county to lower fees for building inspections and construction plan checks based on a surplus of fee revenues is affirmed...

Walther v. Sec'y of Health & Hum. Servs.

Administrative Law, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Military Law
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act does not require a petitioner to bear the burden of eliminating alternative causes of injury where the other...

Otter Tail Power Co. v. Surface Transp. Bd.

Administrative Law, Transportation
In a challenge brought by captive shipper to a determination of the Surface Transportation Board that rates proposed by a railroad company for...

Utah Envtl. Congress v. Richmond

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Environmental Law
In a suit challenging the Forest Service's approval of a timber sale project in a portion of a national forest in Utah, a decision upholding the...

Toledo v. Jackson

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit alleging the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) breached plaintiffs' rights under a collective bargaining...

Sierra Club v. Cal. Dep't of Forestry & Fire Prot.

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
Denial of petition for writ of mandate challenging defendant-agency's decision to issue a Timber Conversion Permit for a site of timberland owned by...

EC Term of Years Trust v. US

Administrative Law, Banking Law, Tax Law
In a refund action brought by a trust under 28 U.S.C. section 1346(a)(1), arising from allegedly wrongful levies by the IRS on a bank account in which...

Royal Siam Corp. v. Chertoff

Administrative Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Immigration Law
In a civil action resulting from the denial of a petition for renewal of a nonimmigrant specialty occupation visa, summary judgment for the government...

Earth Island Inst. v. Hogarth

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Evidence
No judicial deference to agency discretion as to methodology is appropriate when the agency ignores its own statistical methodology in its studies. In...