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RIO GRANDE SILVERY MINNOW v. KEYS

Environmental Law, Government Contracts, Water Law
The US Bureau of Reclamation has discretion to reduce deliveries of available water under its contracts with irrigation districts and cities in New...

US v. DEATON

Environmental Law, Water Law
Congress's power under the Commerce Clause to protect navigable waters allows it to regulate the discharge of pollutants that flow into a roadside...

CENT. AND W. BASIN WATER REPLENISHMENT DIST. v. S. CALIFORNIA WATER CO.

Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
Unused storage space in the Central Basin, a groundwater basin, is a public resource, and the plaintiff is authorized to manage it.

STATE OF S. DAKOTA v. UBBELOHDE

Environmental Law, Water Law
Army Corps of Engineers's actions in releasing water from reservoirs feeding the Missouri River are constrained by the Flood Control Act of 1994 and...

SKOKOMISH INDIAN TRIBE v. US

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Indian Law, Water Law
The district court correctly refused to entertain an Indian tribe's claims of harm due to a hydroelectric project owned by a city, where the challenge...

ISLE ROYALE BOATERS ASS'N v. NORTON

Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
The addition, removal, and relocation of docks proposed in a National Park Service General Management Plan was within the discretion granted by the...

LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP. v. SUPERIOR COURT OF THE COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO (ADAMS)

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Injury & Tort Law, Water Law
In a toxic contamination case brought pursuant to Proposition 65, the trial court did not correctly apply the delayed discovery rule to the facts and...

FRIENDS OF THE EEL RIVER v. SONOMA COUNTY WATER AGENCY

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Water Law
Because an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) does not contain adequate cumulative impacts and alternatives analyses and its description of the...

CHIPPEWA & FLAMBEAU IMPROVEMENT CO. v. FED. ENERGY REGULATORY COMM'N

Administrative Law, Construction, Public Utilities, Water Law
The FERC properly determined that a reservoir was "necessary or appropriate" to a project, and that projects downstream constituted a complete unit of...

AMERICAN CANOE ASS'N v. MURPHY FARMS, INC.

Environmental Law, Water Law
In a suit alleging that pig farms had violated the Clean Water Act (CWA), 33 U.S.C. section 1251, although the district court erred in denying the...