Weekly Cases Update Volume 41, Issue 8

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Volume 41, Issue 16

ELR 20191No.10-1484(1st Cir. , )

The First Circuit upheld the dismissal of a developer's federal takings claim against two state agencies for restricting its development of a coastal residential subdivision in Rhode Island. In Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v.

Keywords:
Regulatory takings, Rhode Island, Inverse condemnation
ELR 20198No. 01-27(Fed. Cl. , )

The Federal Claims court denied a mining company's motion and the government's cross-motion for summary judgment in a Fifth Amendment takings claim stemming from various CERCLA remediation actions taken at the mine.

Keywords:
Temporary takings
ELR 20197No. 10-0254(S.D. Ala., )

A district court granted in part and denied in part the government's motion to dismiss an environmental group's claims that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE) failed to modify its policies and practices concerning offshore oil and gas leasing ope

Keywords:
Interior, Department of the
ELR 20200No. 07-10839(D. Mass., )

A district court held that an insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify a dry cleaner for PCE pollution stemming from repeated flooding under the terms of its insurance policy.

Keywords:
Held inapplicable in, Duty to indemnify
ELR 20196No. 1:09-cv-00023 JWS(D. Alaska, )

A district court reinstated the roadless area conservation rule to the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska. The court previously ruled on motions for summary judgment that a U.S.

Keywords:
Tongass National Forest, Alaska
ELR 20199No.94764(Mich. Ct. App., )

A Michigan appellate court reversed the dismissal of a property owner's trespass claim against a prior owner of the site, but upheld the dismissal of the remaining tort and state-law claims stemming from the discovery of USTs on the site.

Keywords:
Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, Trespass

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