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 pipefitter's…
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 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 of the…
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's…
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 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 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 company…
The court holds that a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) letter responding to a city's request for assistance as to whether the Ocean Pollution Reduction Act's (OPRA's) conditions would…