A district court dismissed a lawsuit alleging that protesters disrupted the construction of and damaged a crude oil pipeline, known as the Dakota Access pipeline, that runs from North Dakota to…

A Minnesota appeals court upheld a lower court decision allowing protestors who face felony charges for shutting down a petroleum pipeline to assert the "necessity" defense. The protestors claimed…

A district court denied the U.S. government's motion to empanel a sentencing jury to determine an oil company's gross pecuniary gain stemming from CAA and Migratory Bird Treaty Act violations.…

A district court held that a research institute must turn over documents relating to its methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) study to one of the plaintiffs in a consolidated multi-district case…

The Sixth Circuit upheld individuals' conviction for impeding a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigation at a water treatment facility in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee. The district court…

The Ninth Circuit affirmed an individual's 10-year sentence for starting nine wildland fires on National Forest Service land. The lower court did not err in calculating the advisory sentencing…

The Ninth Circuit held that a district court had the authority to order and enforce the pretrial disclosures of government witnesses and evidentiary documents in a pending criminal case concerning…

The Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded certain lower court pretrial orders that excluded government witnesses and studies in a case concerning the release of asbestos-contaminated vermiculite at…

The court vacates and remands a six-level sentencing enhancement imposed against the operator of a foreign vessel for failing to keep an accurate "oil record book" in violation of §1908(a) of the…

The court vacates an individual's sentence for illegally dredging North Carolina's Croatan Sound during a bridge construction project and remands the case for resentencing. The district court…