Weekly Cases Update Volume 45, Issue 8

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Volume 45, Issue 17

ELR 2011313-5268(D.C. Cir., )

The D.C. Circuit reversed a lower court injunction requiring BLM to sell more timber from federal land managed under the Oregon and California Railroad and Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Lands Act of 1937.

Keywords:
Timber sales
ELR 2011213-35866(9th Cir., )

The Ninth Circuit upheld the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement's (BSEE's) approval of oil spill response plans for an oil company's leases in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas on Alaska's Arctic coast.

Keywords:
Oil and hazardous substance spills, §311, Interagency consultation, §7(a)
ELR 2011514-3463(8th Cir., )

The Eighth Circuit held that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not abuse its discretion when it revoked homeowners' permits to maintain a boat dock and stone steps on the public land between their property and a lake.

Keywords:
Watershed Protection, Army Corps of Engineers
ELR 20116S14G1780(Ga. Sup. Ct., )

Georgia's highest court held that the state's 25-foot buffer zone for development projects along state waters does not apply to wetlands.

Keywords:
Easements, Wetlands

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