Governance

The court holds that most of a company's claimed losses arising from the need to repair defective pipe welds that a laboratory had failed to discover were not property damages covered by the…

The court affirms the dismissal of property owners' claim that a consulting firm negligently announced that land neighboring the owner's property was suitable as a potential landfill…

The court holds that two Michigan state legislators lack standing to challenge the Secretary of the Interior's approval of gaming compacts between the state of Michigan and four Native…

The court affirms in part and reverses in part a district court grant of summary judgment in favor of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in a suit brought by an individual who alleged that a BLM…

The court affirms a district court decision that a Native American tribe in California has the authority to regulate logging by a non-Native American who owns fee lands within the reservation. In…

The court denies an environmental group's petition to review the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) approval of Maryland's revised motor vehicle emissions budget (…

The court affirms a trial court's exclusion of the testimony in an eminent domain case of a property owner's expert as to the value of the property if it was operated as a landfill. A…

The court affirms a district court decision denying a biomedical association's motion to intervene in an alternative research group's challenge of a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA…

The court holds that the take provision of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), as applied to landowners, does not violate the U.S. Commerce Clause. After purchasing property, the landowners sought…

The court holds that a Native American tribal court was not created in accordance with federally mandated procedures, that the illegitimately formed tribal court could not exercise jurisdiction…