The court holds that a landowner could not bring a claim alleging that a state resources management council's denial of the landowner's application to fill 18 acres of coastal wetlands constituted a taking of that property. The court first holds that the landowner's claim is not ripe for review. Alt...

The court upholds a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) order and denies a gas pipeline operator's petition to review FERC's decision not to hold a comparative hearing before permitting a competitor of the operator to build and operate a natural gas pipeline, and further holds that the opera...

The court holds that a solid waste hauler has standing to bring a U.S. Commerce Clause claim against a waste district authority for instructing homeowners and commercial entities in the district to subtract a district waste generation fee from the contractually agreed to price paid to their waste ha...

The court holds that a hog producer lacks standing to challenge a Monroe County, Mississippi, ordinance regulating new and expanding swine farming in the county. The hog producer purchases hogs from smaller independent farms in order to fill one of its contracts. Because the ordinance prevents the f...

The court upheld in part and vacated in part U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) regulations, known collectively as the Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR) Phase IV rule, addressing residual or secondary materials generated in mining and mineral proc...

The court holds that the Court of Federal Claims improperly held that the Stafford Act, collateral estoppel, and a contract release barred a South Florida trailer park owner's breach of contract claim against the federal government, but the owner's taking and inverse condemnation claims were appropr...

The court denies a petition for review of a final determination by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not to add 14 solvent wastes to its list of hazardous wastes under Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The court first holds that EPA did not clearly err in interpr...

The court denies petitions brought by three groups of individuals seeking to remand their claims for personal injury and wrongful death damages due to asbestos exposure. The petitioners' claims initially were filed in Georgia, New York, and Oregon, but were transferred to a multidistrict litigation ...

The court holds that the federal courts can hear a trailer park association's claim that a local rent control ordinance regulating trailer parks effected an unconstitutional taking under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. Because the association brought suits in federal and state court, the federa...

The court reverses and remands a trial court decision that water district residents did not have standing to challenge the district's settlement agreement with hog confinement facility operators. The facility operators had applied for and had been denied water use variances sufficient to operate the...