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California Communities Against Toxics v. U.S. Envtl. Prot. Agency

Environmental Law, Public Utilities
In a suit brought by environmental groups against the EPA, challenging its final rule approving the South Coast Air Quality Management District's...

Natural Resources Defense Council v. Salazar

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Environmental Law, Government Contracts, Government Law
In a suit brought by several conservation groups claiming that the renewal of forty-one water supply contracts by the United States Bureau of...

Webster v. USDA

Agriculture, Environmental Law, Water Law
In plaintiffs' suit alleging that their land will be adversely affected by the Natural Resources Conservation Service's (NRCS) decision to construct a...

Kansas Gas and Electric Co. v. US

Contracts, Environmental Law, Government Contracts, Oil and Gas Law, Remedies
In a suit for plaintiffs' damages due to the government's partial breach of the Standard Contract for Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel And/Or High-Level...

Travelers Casualty and Surety Co. v. Providence Washington Insurance Co.

Environmental Law, Insurance Law
In an action seeking a declaratory judgment that defendant is obliged to join in the defense of insured, in connection with a contribution action...

Tinicum Township v. US Dept. of Transportation

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Transportation
In an appeal of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) approval of a significant expansion of Philadelphia International Airport, allege...

State of Delaware Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Control v. US Army Corps of Engineers

Environmental Law, Water Law
In a case dealing with whether the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can deepen the main channel of the Delaware River by five feet, enabling river ports...

US v. CB & I Constructors, Inc.

Environmental Law, Remedies
In a civil action to recover damages for harm caused by a wildfire negligently caused by defendant that burned roughly 18,000 acres of the Angeles...

City of Hayward v. Bd. of Trustees

Education Law, Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a university's appeal of a writ of mandate directing it to vacate its certification of an environmental impact report (EIR) prepared with respect...

W.M. Barr & Co. v. South Coast Air Quality Management Dist.

Administrative Law, Environmental Law
In a suit challenging an Air Quality Management District's adoption of Rule 1143, which requires manufacturers of consumer paint thinner and solvent...