The court denies a California public utility's petition for a writ of mandamus staying various aspects of a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) order addressing the crisis surrounding…
The court holds that an administrative law judge (ALJ) properly reallocated responsibility for paying a pipefitter's medical and disability payments from an insurance company to the…
The court affirms a district court decision that a Georgia trucking company breached a contract to purchase a Missouri trucking company's terminal facility when it refused to close the sale…
The court holds that a building owner failed to prove that a neighboring service station was negligent in performing environmental remediation and, thus, reverses and vacates a district court…
The court affirms a district court grant of summary judgment to an oil company that a property owner had sued for damage caused to his land by oil spills that the company allegedly caused. The…
The court holds that initiative measures generated and placed on the ballot by a public agency are not exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The city of Sierra Madre enacted…
The court dismisses individuals' public nuisance action against sugar companies that allegedly disposed of a chemical byproduct of sugar cane processing by deep well injection. A trial court…
The court holds that a manufactured gas plant operator was not entitled to coverage for cleanup costs it incurred in connection with a contaminated area near the Merrimack River in New Hampshire…
The court holds that a district court had jurisdiction and discretion to make post-appeal modifications of an injunction issued against a shipyard for Clean Water Act violations. The original…
The Seventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a landowner's breach of contract claim against a mining company that failed to restore the oil wells on the landowner's property after the…