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Heartwood, Inc. v. Agpaoa

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Government Law
In a nonprofit corporations' challenge to a forest plan and a final environmental impact statements (EIS) adopted by the Regional Forester and the...

Arrow Gear Co. v. Downers Grove Sanitary Dist.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Environmental Law, Government Law
In plaintiffs' suits under section 113(b) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. section...

Wild Fish Conservancy v. Salazar

Administrative Law, Environmental Law
In a challenge to a Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) biological opinion addressing the effects of the operations of the Leavenworth National Fish...

Nat'l. Ass'n. of Home Builders v. San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Ctrl. Dist.

Administrative Law, Construction, Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action claiming that an air pollution district's rule requiring development sites to reduce the amount of pollutants they emit was preempted by...

Carijano v. Occidental Petro. Corp.

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law
In an action by members of the Peruvian Achuar indigenous group dependent for their existence upon the rainforest lands and waterways along the river,...

Center for Biological Diversity v. US Dept. of Agr.

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Environmental Law, Government Law
In the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) appeal from the district court's order requiring the USDA, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA),...

Nostrom v. A.W. Chesterton Co.

Commercial Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Environmental Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action alleging violations of Industrial Code regulations, which required the prevention of air contamination and the removal of dangerous air...

Humane Soc. of US v. Locke

Administrative Law, Environmental Law
In a challenge to the National Marine Fisheries Service's (NMFS) authorization of the states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho to kill up to 85...

Friends of the Juana Briones House v. City of Palo Alto

Administrative Law, Construction, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Trial court's judgment granting a writ of mandate, directing the City of Palo Alto to set aside its approval of a permit to demolish the historic...

Cherry Valley Pass Acres & Neighbors v. City of Beaumont

Administrative Law, Construction, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In plaintiffs' petition for writ of mandate seeking to set aside a city's certification of an EIR and related actions approving a project to build 560...