Complaint by Detergent Association and several leading detergent manufacturers seeking preliminary injunction against Dade County ordinance banning sale of phosphate detergents in county after January 1, 1972, and requiring labelling of detergents according to percentage weight of each ingredient on...
Writ of mandate issued requiring defendants, two California counties, to pay to Tahoe Regional Planning Agency funds allocated by Agency, a regional instrument created by compact between California and Nevada and ratified by Congress entrusted with the duty of establishing a regional land use scheme...
Request of corporation formed to advance the public interest for permission to pursue appeal from F.T.C. decision in forma pauperis denied. A corporation which may otherwise qualify under the statute as "a person . . . unable to pay" the costs of a lawsuit should not be exempted from these...
Gibson v. Ruckelshaus, 1 ELR 20337 (E.D. Tex. Mar. 1, 1971), reversed and remanded to district court for consideration of whether any relief for plaintiff Gibson is appropriate. Court at oral argument indicated that case must be reversed, vacated or otherwise set aside and directed counsel to collab...
Where defendant proceeded with dredge and fill operations in Florida Bay at accelerated pace in connection with construction of trailer court after notification by Corps of Engineers that permit was required under Refuse Act of 1899, where Corps decided against issuance of permit, and where evidence...
Georgetown University found not guilty of Refuse Act violation in connection with spillage of oil into Potomac River from heating and cooling plant under construction where testing of system was under exclusive control of independent contractor. University employee who failed to turn system off was ...
Congress has, by implication, preempted the field with respect to regulating radioactive waste releases from nuclear power plants thereby obviating the need for power company to comply with stricter state standards. [See district court decision at 1 ELR 20218.] Key statutory provision under Atomic E...
Final judgment agreed upon by parties with respect to both complaint and counterclaim without trial or adjudication of any issue of fact or law involved in litigation. Defendant agrees to construct Card Sound Canal within four years upon securing necessary state and federal permits and shall in the ...
Further construction of the Cooper Dam and Channels Project on the Sulphur River preliminarily enjoined because the Corps of Engineers, in disregard of the requirements of NEPA, 42 U.S.C. §§4321 and 4331 et seq., did not develop procedures that incorporated an interdisciplinary approach to decisio...
New York City ordinance which imposes a 2-cent tax on the sale of plastic containers, in order to promote recycling and to reduce solid waste disposal problem, appears to lack a rational basis for discriminating against plastic, because it does not impose similar taxes on paper, fibre, glass, metal,...