A district court granted environmental groups’ motion for summary judgment finding that the NMFS and the FWS (collectively, the Services) acted arbitrarily and capriciously in failing to consider a mining company’s preexisting reclamation obligations as part of their environmental baseline analy...

A district court denied the United States’ motion to dismiss a complaint, brought pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), in which plaintiff alleged that exposure to contaminants in the water supply at Camp Lejeune caused her to develop non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Plaintiff, who had ...

A district court denied the United States’ motion to dismiss a complaint, brought pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), in which plaintiff alleged that exposure to contaminants in the water supply at Camp Lejeune caused her to develop non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Plaintiff, who had ...

The Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of an insurance company in an action under CERCLA and the California Hazardous Substance Account Act to recover response costs and other damages related to the cleanup of contamination. Appellants, who had inherited ...

A district court denied the United States’ motion to dismiss a complaint, brought pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), in which plaintiff alleged that exposure to contaminants in the water supply at Camp Lejeune caused her to develop non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Plaintiff, who had ...

Applying state law, the Seventh Circuit reversed a lower court decision to hold that a sewerage district was not entitled to reformation of an environmental liability insurance policy to include a certain parcel of real property. Based on all of the evidence in the record, the lower court’s fi...

The Oregon Supreme Court answered three certified questions from the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals relating to whether plaintiffs, farmers and irrigation districts that use water from a federal reclamation project in the Klamath River basin have an equitable interest in a water right to which the...

The Maine Supreme Court upheld the Board of Environmental Protection's decision to affirm the issuance of permits to a company to construct a wind energy generation facility. A citizen group challenged the Board’s findings on the grounds that the company did not meet applicable licensing crite...

The Oregon Supreme Court answered three certified questions from the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals relating to whether plaintiffs, farmers and irrigation districts that use water from a federal reclamation project in the Klamath River basin have an equitable interest in a water right to which the...

A district court denied environmental groups’ motion for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the use of genetically engineered sugar beets. On the likelihood of success on the merits, the court has already found that defendants, the USDA and its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, viola...