Weekly Cases Update Volume 45, Issue 11

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Volume 45, Issue 26

Swinomish Indian Tribal Community v. BNSF Railway Co.
ELR 20168C15-543RSL(W.D. Wash., )

A district court held that a Native American tribe that occupies land on Fidalgo Island in Skagit County, Washington, may go forward with trespass and breach of contract claims against a railroad company for violating the terms of a right-of-way easement agreement.

Keywords:
Easements
Gorsline v. Board of Supervisors of Fairfield Township
ELR 201701735 C.D. 2014(Pa. Commw. Ct., )

A Pennsylvania appellate court reversed a lower court order denying an energy company's application to construct and operate a natural gas well on land it has leased from a private landowner.

Keywords:
Energy (generally), Zoning, Land use
Cascadia Wildlands v. Bureau of Indian Affairs
ELR 2016914-35553(9th Cir., )

The Ninth Circuit upheld the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA's) approval of a Native American tribe's plan to harvest 268 acres of timber in the Coquille Forest in southwest Oregon.

Keywords:
National forests, National forests

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