Governance

The court reverses and remands a district court decision holding that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction to review an environmental group's claims that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)…

The court holds that insurers are not obligated to defend or indemnify a manufacturing company for the costs of environmental remediation efforts undertaken at three of its manufacturing and waste…

The court holds that insurance companies may have a duty to indemnify a chemical company that was sued by municipalities for groundwater contamination. The insurance companies provided the…

The court affirms a district court decision allocating liability among past and present owners for contamination at an oil refinery site. The refinery was built in 1929 by a gasoline company. In…

The court holds that it lacked power under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to grant an environmental group's request to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to disclose information…

The court reverses a district court judgment denying Florida's and a hydropower company's motions to intervene as defendants in Georgia's lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of…

The court holds that it must abstain from hearing a case brought by property owners who claimed that a county ordinance making the lake on which their property sits a "no wake" lake is…

The court holds that Arizona's cap on nonresident hunting of antlered deer and bull elk substantially affects and discriminates against interstate commerce and remands the case for further…

The court affirms a district court holding that a city did not breach a contract with a developer by failing to obtain the wetlands permits necessary for the development of an apartment complex…

The court reverses a district court decision that the New Mexico Forest Conservation Act (FCA) preempted a county timber harvest ordinance and that the ordinance's environmental assessment…