Hornbeck Offshore Services, L.L.C. v. Salazar
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. Shortly after the spill, at the president's direction, DOI prohibi...
Leon County, Florida v. Federal Housing Finance Agency
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed a lower court decision dismissing a county's lawsuit challenging a Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) directive advising Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to refrain from purchasing mortgages encumbered with certain first-priority lien obligations under the Property Assesse...
Styrene Information & Research Center v. Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
A California appellate court affirmed a lower court decision prohibiting the inclusion of styrene and vinyl acetate as possible carcinogens on the state's Proposition 65 list. The Proposition 65 list is limited to chemicals for which it has been determined, either by the Office of Environmental Heal...
Indiana Gas Co. v. Indiana Finance Authority
An Indiana appeals court reversed the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission's approval of a purchase and sales agreement for "substitute natural gas" an energy company plans to produce at its new coal gasification plant. The contract meets the common law definition of an enforceable contract. It als...