The Tenth Circuit affirmed a district court ruling denying business owners’ motion to preliminary enjoin the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, from proceeding with construction of a rapid transit bus system due to alleged NEPA and National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) violations. The business o...

The Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision that the Hawaii Pesticides Law impliedly preempts a county ordinance that seeks to regulate pesticides and genetically engineered plants. The ordinance would have required commercial farmers to maintain “buffer zones” between crops to which pesti...