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Kennedy Bldg. Assocs. v. CBS Corp.

The court remanded for modification an injunction imposed against a corporation for soil and groundwater contamination in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The injunction required the corporation to prevent the release of further contaminants into soil and groundwater; to test for migration and to remedy any ...

Friends of the Sierra R.R. v. Tuolumne Park & Recreation Dist.

A California appellate court affirmed a lower court's denial of a petition for a writ of mandamus to reverse a public agency's sale of land to the Tuolumne Board of Me-Wuk Indians. The land contained a disused but historic railroad right-of-way. A community group argued that the transfer fell within...

Sevenson Envtl. Servs., Inc. v. Shaw Envtl., Inc.

The court upheld a lower court decision dismissing an environmental service company's patent infringement suit against a hazardous waste remediation contractor. The contractor was hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to clean up a lead-contaminated parcel of land near Colonie, New York. The com...

Save Tara v. West Hollywood, City of

A California appellate court reversed in part a lower court decision denying a neighborhood association's petition to set aside agreements between a city and developers to build a housing project in West Hollywood. Although the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved the developer...

Landwatch Monterey County v. Monterey, County of

A California appellate court upheld a lower court decision denying an environmental group's petition challenging a local board's approval of a development project in Monterey County. The group argued that by approving the project with a mitigated negative declaration (MND) in lieu of an environmenta...

Sierra Club v. Delaware Dep't of Natural Resources & Envtl. Control

The court upheld the dismissal of an environmental group's lawsuit against a state agency and its officials seeking to enjoin the agency from conducting dredging operations in a canal until it complies with an earlier order by the state environmental appeals board remanding a dredging permit for a p...

Andrews v. Amherst, Town of

A court upheld a town's right to regulate development through zoning that prevents development in flood plains. Landowners filed suit against the town after their property was rezoned from a light industrial zone to a flood-prone conservancy zone. A state land court ruled that the town's action was ...

Feduniak v. California Coastal Comm'n

A California appellate court held that the doctrine of equitable estoppel does not bar the California Coastal Commission from ordering homeowners to remove a private three-hole golf course from around their house and to restore the area to its native sand dune vegetation. The property was burdened b...

Citizens for a Megaplex-Free Alameda v. Alameda, City of

A California court upheld the dismissal of a petition under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) challenging a city's approval of a redevelopment project involving both the rehabilitation of a historic theater and the construction of an adjacent multi-screen cineplex and parking structure...

Nilsson v. Department of Envtl. Protection of N.Y.

New York's highest court ordered the modification of a lower court decision reversing a local agency's denial of a landowner's request for a variance to build an underground sewage treatment system within the New York City watershed. The agency denied the variance application because the landowner f...