Weekly Cases Update Volume 43, Issue 2

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Volume 42, Issue 34

ELR 20241H032750(Cal. Ct. App. 6th Dist., )

A California appellate court affirmed in part and reversed in part a lower court decision approving an agreement between landowners, the Santa Maria Valley Water Conservation District, and local cities and water companies in a water rights dispute over the groundwater contained in the Santa Maria

Keywords:
Water allocation under state law
ELR 2024211-13140(E.D. Mich., )

A district court held that an insurance company need not indemnify its insured for certain repair and replacement costs it incurred cleaning up the release of contaminants from an underground gasoline storage tank.

Keywords:
Duty to indemnify
ELR 20243A12-1661(Minn. Ct. App., )

A Minnesota appellate court held that the state environmental agency did not err in certifying under CWA §401 EPA's proposed NPDES vessel general permit, which allows shipping vessels in Lake Superior to discharge ballast water in state waters.

Keywords:
State certification, §401, Permit issuance
ELR 202434:08-CV-516(D. Idaho, )

A district court ordered BLM to revise the Craters of the Moon and Pinedale resource management plans (RMPs) to correct deficiencies concerning impacts on the sage-grouse.

Keywords:
Livestock grazing, Resource development
ELR 2024511-30936(5th Cir., )

The Fifth Circuit held that DOI did not violate a district court order preliminarily enjoining enforcement of a drilling moratorium following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico by issuing a second drilling ban.

Keywords:
Energy (generally)

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