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Atl. Richfield Co. v. Mont. Second Judicial Dist. Court

The Montana Supreme Court held that owners of private land within a Superfund site can proceed with a compensation suit against an oil company to restore their properties beyond the remedies approved by EPA for the Superfund site as a whole. An oil company entered into a consent decree with EPA to r...

Sowinski v. Cal. Air Res. Bd.

The Federal Circuit held that the state of California did not infringe on an emissions trading-related patent, allowing the state's greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program to continue. The plaintiff owns a U.S. patent that covers a method and apparatus for using electronic systems to claim an...

Chao v. Symms Fruit Ranch, Inc.

The court holds that the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission did not exceed its authority in finding that a violation of an Occupational Safety and Health Administration safety regulation was de minimis and, therefore, not assessing a penalty. The Secretary of Labor argued that after sh...

Westport, Town of v. Monsanto Co.

The First Circuit held that a pesticide company is not liable for cleaning up PCB-laden caulk installed in a Massachusetts middle school in the 1960s. Before August 1970, the pesticide company sold PCB mixtures to formulators of building materials, who then incorporated them into various end product...

National Mining Association v. Zinke

The Ninth Circuit rejected challleges to a 2012 DOI decision to withdraw from new uranium mining claims, up to twenty years, over one million acres of land near Grand Canyon National Park. The lands were withdrawn, subject to existing valid claims, with the intent to protect water resources in the G...

In re Application of Maui Electric Co.

The Hawaii Supreme Court held that the “right to a clean and healthful environment” as set forth in the Hawaii Constitution gives citizens the right to be heard and protect their environmental interests in cases before the state Public Utilities Commission. A Hawaiian electric company sought the...

Winding Creek Solar LLC v. Peevey

A district court held that the California Public Utilities Commission's tariff program for small renewables, known as the Renewable Market Adjusting Tariff (Re-MAT), violates the federal Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA). A solar company challenged the Re-MAT program, arguing that the t...

Central Green Co. v. United States

The U.S. Supreme Court holds that in determining whether §702c of the Flood Control Act grants the federal government immunity from Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) claims, courts should consider the character of the waters that cause the relevant damage and the purposes behind their release rather t...

Caruolo v. John Crane, Inc.

The court upholds a jury verdict finding a manufacturer of asbestos-containing sealing devices liable to an individual for injuries sustained due to asbestos exposure in the workplace.
The court first holds that there was sufficient evidence to support an inference that the individual's work with t...

Carter-Jones Lumber Co. v. LTV Steel Co.

The court holds that the sole shareholder of a distributing company is jointly liable with the company for 50% of plaintiff's response costs incurred at a polluted site near Columbus, Ohio. The court first holds that each element of the three-prong test for piercing the corporate veil under Ohio law...