City planning commission's regulation requiring developer to set aside percentage of land for playgrounds or parks is constitutional exercise of police power when passed pursuant to Connecticut statute authorizing such commissions to adopt plans specifying most desirable use of land and including pr...

Motion for preliminary injunction denied in suit to bar the Secretary of Agriculture from undertaking a program to control the imported fire ant by aerial application of the pesticide, Mirex. U.S.D.A. studies of the potential environmental impact of the fire ant control program, and the environmenta...

Failure of Economic Development Administration to file an environmental impact statement under the National Environmental Policy Act in connection with $3,795,200 grant to county for construction of 26 miles of new road and surfacing of 7.5 miles of existing road to run partly through national fores...

The Secretary of Transportation's disbursement of federal funds for highway construction through a Harrisburg public park enjoined and the matter remanded to the Secretary for more explicit findings under the Parklands Statutes, 49 U.S.C. §1653(f) and 23 U.S.C. §138. The Secretary's determinations...

Trial court's dismissal of appeal from Connecticut Water Resources Commission's grant of a permit to erect a pier into Long Island Sound set aside and a new trial ordered. The trial court's refusal to admit evidence outside the record of the ex parte administrative proceedings was error, because the...

This suit involves conflicting claims between Utah and the United States to the shorelands around the Great Salt Lake. The Special Master appointed by the Court found that at the date of Utah's admission to the Union, the Lake was navigable and that the lake bed passed to Utah at that time. These fi...

Venue in the U.S. District Court (D. Md.) does not lie for an action to enjoin the Secretary of Agriculture from permitting road construction, prospecting or mining in the Challis National Forest by a corporation which owns mineral rights within the forest. The suit is against the Secretary in his o...

Plaintiffs' suit for violation of §13 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, 33 U.S.C. §407, is dismissed on defendants' motion because the Act does not expressly permit a person seeking the informer's fees to maintain a qui tam action for violation of the statute. Plaintiffs' request for injuncti...

Secretary of Interior may validly impose 25 cents per-acre rental fee as condition to issuance of prospecting permit on federally owned sulphur lands despite fact that lease application was filed before fee announced or contemplated. Secretary has both statutory authority and authority implied by hi...

The provision of the federal Department of Transportation Act, designed to protect parklands, recreational areas, wildlife refuges and historic sites, originally effective April 1, 1967, is not applicable to a federal aid highway for which "contract drawings" were approved by DOT on Nov. 18, 1966. F...