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Tolumne County Citizens for Responsible Growth, Inc. v. Sonora, City of

A California appellate court reversed a lower court decision denying a petition for writ of mandate challenging a city's approval of a home improvement center construction project. A citizens group argued that the realignment of a nearby road should have been considered as part of the same project u...

Mejia v. Los Angeles, City of

A California appellate court denied an appeal of a post-judgment award of attorney fees to plaintiff as the successful party in a proceeding under the California Environmental Quality Act challenging a proposed housing development due to its environmental impacts on wildlife and traffic. Plaintiff i...

A.J. Lancaster v. North Carolina Dep't of Envtl. & Natural Resources

A North Carolina appeals court denied respondent agency’s appeal of a lower court's reversal of the agency's assessment of a civil penalty for petitioner's failure to meet certain requirements related to leaking underground storage tanks (USTs). Petitioner inherited the property from his father wh...

Santa Clarita Org. for Planning the Env't v. Los Angeles, City of

A California appeals court affirmed a lower court’s denial of environmental group’s petition for writ of mandate challenging defendant county’s revision and recertification of an environmental impact report (EIR) under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The water serv...

O'Mara v. Wappinger, Town of

On certification from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the New York Court of Appeals held that an open space restriction imposed by a subdivision plat under New York Town Law §276 and filed in the Office of the county clerk pursuant to Real Property Law §334 is enforceable...

Porterville Citizens for Responsible Hillside Dev. v. Porterville, City of

A California appellate court reversed a lower court's grant of a peremptory writ of mandamus in favor of an environmental group that set aside defendant city's approval of a housing project subdivision map and that required a focused environmental impact report (EIR) or equivalent analysis to be con...

Save Round Valley Alliance v. Inyo, County of

A California appellate court reversed a lower court's denial of a petition for a writ of mandate, which challenged the certification of an environmental impact report (EIR) under the California Environmental Quality Act and the approval of a developer's tentative subdivision tract map in Inyo County...

Feldman v. Bomar

The Ninth Circuit dismissed individuals' appeal from a judgment for defendants in a case claiming that they violated the National Environmental Policy Act and the California Environmental Quality Act in adopting a National Park Service (NPS) program to restore and protect Santa Cruz Island by, in pa...

North Slope Borough v. Minerals Management Serv.

A district court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Alaska native groups seeking to rescind certain oil and gas leases issued by the Minerals Management Service (MMS) in 2007. The MMS prepared an EIS in 2003 for lease sales that were to occur in 2003, 2005, and 2007. Because of the time lag between the 20...

Schuette & Koerting, Inc. v. Regional Water Quality Control Bd.

A California appellate court reversed a lower court decision denying a petition to set aside a regional water board order requiring a company to perform a human health risk assessment in connection with its cleanup of a large toxic groundwater plume of industrial wastes that leaked into the ground a...