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United States v. Curtis-Nevada Mines, Inc.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a district court ruling, 6 ELR 20715, that the owner of unpatented mining claims on federal lands has the right to exclude members of the general public from recreational use of the land which does not interfere with mining activities unless they have obta...

North Dakota v. Andrus

The court rules that the Secretary of the Interior was not required to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in conjunction with his submission to Congress of a legislative proposal regarding changes in the cost-sharing requirements for fe...

Environmental Defense Fund v. Higginson

The court grants summary judgment to the federal defendants in a case challenging their failure to prepare a comprehensive environmental impact statement (CEIS) concerning a series of water resources projects in the Colorado River Basin. Preliminary procedural decisions in the same case may be found...

In re Permanent Surface Mining Regulation Litig.

The court rules that the Secretary of the Interior has broad authority to issue permanent regulations implementing the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act but remands a number of regulatory provisions for revision as arbitrary, capricious, or otherwise inconsistent with the law, pursuant to t...

In re November 1979 Grand Jury (Velsicol Chem. Corp. v. United States)

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirms a district court's orders refusing to quash subpoenas to petitioners' former outside counsel or to terminate a grand jury investigation of the withholding of information concerning the carcinogenicity of the pesticides heptachlor and chlordane from the En...

Susquehanna Valley Alliance v. Three Mile Island Nuclear Reactor

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a decision of a district court dismissing, for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, a complaint seeking injunctive and declaratory relief against the proposed discharge of radioactive effluent from the damaged Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. As to a...

S.L. Cowley & Sons Mfg. Co. v. EPA

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reverses an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) order cancelling the registration of a rodenticide after finding that the order was based upon the erroneous assumption that EPA has authority to establish and enforce minimum effectiveness standards for pesticides ...

Noe v. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Auth.

The court dismisses a complaint seeking an injunction restraining the builder of a subway system from causing noise levels in excess of those predicted in the environmental impact statement prepared for the project. Finding nothing in the National Environmental Policy Act requiring defendants to abi...

Pittston Co. v. Endangered Species Comm.

In a case of first impression, the court rules that the Pittston Company's application for an exemption from §7 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to enable it to build an oil refinery in Maine is not ripe for review. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had preliminarily indicated that it wo...

Environmental Defense Fund v. Andrus

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirms the judgment of the district court upholding the adequacy of an environmental impact statement (EIS) prepared in connection with plans for leasing federal lands for oil shale development. Contrary to appellants' argument that the programmatic EIS prepared i...