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Matter of Town of Waterford

Environmental Law, Government Law, Water Law
In a CPLR 5601 proceeding brought by a town to challenge the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)'s denial of portions of the town's request...

Scarborough Citizens Protecting Resources v. US Fish and Wildlife Service

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit alleging that the state of Maine's conveyances of easements on a tract of land purchased using federal funds granted to the state under the...

Sackett v. EPA

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Water Law
In a suit by landowners seeking declarative and injunctive relief, contending that a compliance order from the EPA, which stated that their...

No Wetlands Landfill Expansion v. County of Marin

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Government Law
In a dispute over a local CEQA enforcement agency's approval of an EIR and issuance of a permit for expansion of a landfill, the trial court's...

Otay Land Co. v. United Enterprises Ltd.

Attorney's Fees, Environmental Law
An award of costs of litigation under 28 USC section 1919 to defendants sued for CERCLA cleanup costs is vacated and the case remanded, where the...

Turtle Island Restoration Network v. Dep't of Commerce

Administrative Law, Environmental Law
In a challenge to the district court's vacatur, under the terms of the consent decree, of a National Marine Fisheries Service regulation increasing...

Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. Salazar

Constitutional Law, Environmental Law
In a suit by environmental groups seeking to enjoin the implementation of a federal statute that orders the Secretary of the Interior to remove a...

Consolidated Irrigation District v. City of Selma

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Water Law
On appeal of a trial court's grant of an irrigation district's petition for a writ of mandate challenging a city's use of a mitigated negative...

Shell Oil Co. v. US

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Judges & Judiciary, Oil and Gas Law
In an appeal from a decision of the Court of Federal Claims requiring the United States to indemnify certain oil companies for environmental cleanup...

San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority v. Dep't of the Interior

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Water Law
In a suit by water agencies contending that the Department of Interior abused its discretion in failing to apply certain releases of water against the...