A court upholds, with modification, a trial court decision in favor of an insurance company in a case involving an aerospace manufacturer's claim for coverage under numerous insurance policies for pollution-related liability totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. It was error for the trial court ...
A court holds that a city need not prepare an environmental impact report (EIR) under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for a hotel project in San Diego, California. The potential environmental impacts of the project were adequately examined in two earlier EIRs for a city redevelopment...
The court dismisses in part and denies in part a petition for judicial review of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's decision to allow an owner and operator of a hydroelectric project on the Sebasticook River in Maine to surrender its license and breach a dam. Nearby landowners complained tha...
A court reverses a lower court's grant of peremptory writ ordering the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the California Department of Fish and Game to set aside their administrative determinations regarding the logging and use of certain land in the Headwaters Forest. The low...
The court affirms the dismissal of an individual's complaint challenging the constitutionality of a Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management regulation restricting the number of lobsters that may be harvested by methods other than lobster traps. The individual's equal protection claim was...
A court affirms a trial court judgment condemning three residential rental properties for redevelopment purposes in a quick take eminent domain proceeding. In quick take eminent domain proceedings, the date of valuation of the property, for purposes of trial on the issue of the property owner's just...
A court reverses a lower court decision enjoining a city's peafowl management program that allowed a minimum peafowl population on certain city-owned parkland and canyon property. Residents opposing the program argued that the program violated restrictions in deeds by which the municipality obtained...
A court holds that a municipality may not lawfully require the owner of a private single-family residence who proposes to modify a portion of the interior of his residence, in an area not visible to the general public, to undergo a review of the proposed project pursuant to the California Environmen...
The court holds that a solid waste management district regulation requiring solid waste to be disposed at either in-district or out-of-state landfills, unless otherwise authorized, does not violate the U.S. or Arkansas Constitutions. The regulation does not violate the Commerce Clause because it is ...
A court affirms a trial court ruling that a nonprofit organization failed to demonstrate that the manufacturers and distributors of plumbing parts discharged lead into a source of California drinking water in violation of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, commonly known as Propositi...