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Anderson v. Red River Waterway Comm'n

The court affirms a district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of a local commission charged with maintaining and operating the Red River Waterway in Louisiana in an inverse condemnation suit brought against it by riparian landowners whose property was flooded after the U.S. Army Corps of E...

Ingram v. Pine Bluff, City of

The court affirms a district court decision holding unripe a property owner's federal takings claim against a city for demolishing his building because the owner failed to seek compensation for the taking through available state procedures. The court holds that the property owner must bring an actio...

In re Int'l Union, United Mine Workers of Am.

The court denies a union's request to compel the U.S. Department of Labor to promulgate an emergency temporary standard to protect mine workers from exposure to respirable coal mine dust. The court first holds that the union failed to satisfy its burden of showing that an emergency temporary standar...

Sandia, Pueblo of v. Babbitt

The court holds that it lacks jurisdiction to hear intervening homeowners' appeal of a suit concerning a boundary dispute between Native Americans and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Native Americans sued DOI claiming that an 1859 government survey erroneous...

Pownal Dev. Corp. v. Pownal Tanning Co.

The court affirms a trial court decree allowing a developer to partially foreclose on nine parcels of land while not foreclosing on a 10th contaminated parcel. A tannery owned the land at issue and contaminated the land surrounding its mill. The mill parcel was listed as a Superfund site and underwe...

Soho Alliance v. New York City Bd. of Standards & Appeals

The court affirms the New York City Board of Standards and Appeals' (BSA's) decision to grant use variances permitting the development of two neighboring properties in a New York City historic district and to issue a negative declaration that the development did not require an environmental impact s...

Lower Elwha Band of S'Klallams v. Lummi Indian Tribe

The court holds that a 1978 case concerning Native American fishing rights in the Puget Sound intended for the Lummi Indian Tribe's usual and accustomed fishing areas to include Admiralty Inlet but not the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the mouth of the Hood Canal. In the 1978 action, the court determin...

Nebraska Pub. Power Dist. v. MidAmerican Energy Co.

The court holds that a power sale contract between an energy company and a public power district does not require the energy company to make current, nonrefundable payments of estimated decommissioning costs to the power district, but makes the energy company liable for decommissioning costs only in...

Muckleshoot Indian Tribe v. Lummi Indian Nation

The court affirms a district court decision holding that a 1978 case concerning Native American fishing rights in the Puget Sound intended for the Lummi Indian Tribe's usual and accustomed fishing areas to extend to the northern outskirts, or suburbs, of Seattle as they existed in 1974. In the 1978 ...

Okanogan Highlands Alliance v. Williams

The court holds that the U.S. Forest Service's (the Service's) environmental impact statement (EIS) and record of decision (ROD) for a mining operation on and around Buckhorn Mountain in California did not violate the National Environmental Policy Act, the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), or Nati...