The Eleventh Circuit held that a district court should have remanded to state court individuals' strict liability claims against a development company for groundwater and surface water…
A California appellate court upheld the invalidation of a municipal services agreement between a Native American tribe and a city concerning the tribe's plan to build a gaming facility on…
A California appellate court held that a city violated the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in approving new commercial development on vacant land. One of the CEQA's two major…
A district court awarded an environmental group attorneys fees, expert fees, and costs in connection with its underlying Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act and…
A Pennsylvania court upheld a state environmental agency's decision to issue an air quality permit authorizing the construction of a waste coal-fired power plant capable of generating…
The Seventh Circuit upheld the dismissal of landowners' takings claim against a city for allowing their land to become flooded due to city-owned stormwater detention ponds and a wastewater…
A California appellate court held that a county board's certification of an environmental impact report (EIR) and approval of a conditional use permit (CUP) regarding a proposed expansion of…
New York's highest court ordered the modification of a lower court decision reversing a local agency's denial of a landowner's request for a variance to build an underground sewage…
A California court upheld the dismissal of a petition under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) challenging a city's approval of a redevelopment project involving both the…
A California appellate court reversed a lower court decision denying environmental groups' petition challenging a state agency's decision to allow timberland to be converted to a…