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Biodiversity Conservation Alliance v. Bureau of Land Mgmt.

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Oil and Gas Law
In several environmental and citizens' groups challenge to a 2003 Bureau of Land Management resource management plan amendment allowing natural gas...

Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone of Nev. v. US Dept. of Interior

Administrative Law, Environmental Law
In an action claiming that the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) approval of a mining company's amendment to a plan of operations for an existing...

San Diego Navy Broadway Complex Coalition v. City of San Diego

Administrative Law, Environmental Law
In a nonprofit organization's petition for writ of mandate claiming that defendant-city violated CEQA in determining that no further environmental...

Kern County Water Agency v. Watershed Enforcers

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law
In a nonprofit organization's petition for writ of mandate to compel the California Department of Water Resources to stop taking endangered or...

Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Fla. Dept. of Env. Protection, Inc.

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
In an action challenging the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's approval of permits to restore a portion of beach eroded by several...

Norfolk S. Ry. Co. v. City of Alexandria

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Oil and Gas Law, Transportation
In an action for a declaratory judgment against a city, arising from an ordinance to regulate ethanol transloading at plaintiff's facility, judgment...

Hydro Resources, Inc. v. EPA

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a petition for review of the EPA's "final land status determination" expressing its judgment that petitioner's land qualified as "Indian land," the...

Commuter Rail Div. v. Surface Transp. Bd.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Construction, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Environmental Law, M&A, Transportation
In a petition for review of the Surface Transportation Board's approval of the acquisition of certain railroads by another railroad, the petition is...

Lyondell Chem. Co. v. Occidental Chem. Co.

Environmental Law, Evidence
In "apportionment" actions under Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) section 107 and "contribution" actions...

Arizona Cattle Growers' Assn. v. Salazar

Administrative Law, Environmental Law
In a challenge to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) designation of critical habitat for the Mexican Spotted Owl, summary judgment...