Rocky Mount Farmers Union v. Goldstene
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Pacific Operators Offshore, LLP v. Valladolid
The U.S. Supreme Court held that the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) extends workers compensation coverage to an employee who can establish a substantial nexus between his injury and his employer's extractive operations on the outer continental shelf (OCS). The case arose after the emp...
Bergmann v. Michigan State Transportation Comm'n,
The Sixth Circuit vacated and remanded a lower court decision partially granting a landowner's motion to enforce a decades-old consent decree requiring Michigan's transportation department to remediate certain property by March 31, 1995, or to pay the landowner $2,000 per month until the remediation...
Hardesty v. Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District
A California appellate court affirmed a lower court decision dismissing a petition challenging an air district's abatement order directing the owners of an open-pit mining operation to cease operation of the central plant equipment and all internal combustion engines with a rating greater than 5...
New York State Superfund Coalition, Inc. v. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
New York's highest court upheld regulations promulgated by the state's environmental agency that require inactive hazardous waste disposal sites to be restored to pre-disposal conditions. A coalition of commercial property owners argued that the regulations are ultra vires and impermissibly allow th...
Five Corners Family Farmers v. State
The Supreme Court of Washington held that state law does not limit the amount of water that can be withdrawn from groundwater for livestock-watering purposes. Local farmers and environmentalists sought a declaration that the stockwatering exemption from state permitting requirements is limited t...