The court holds that the owners of a contaminated site may not recover damages for negligence, gross negligence, or strict liability from an oil company that previously owned the site and used it…

The court affirms a district court decision that under Pennsylvania law a manufacturer is entitled to indemnification from its excess liability insurers for property damage resulting from…

The court reverses and remands a district court contempt order imposing over $114 million in sanctions against a chemical manufacturing company for violating the court's discovery orders. The…

The court holds that South Carolina laws that limit the amount of out-of-state waste that may be disposed of in South Carolina violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. One statute…

The court directs a district court to enjoin South Dakota state officials from relitigating in state court issues that the federal circuit court has already decided concerning the permitting of a…

The court holds that New Jersey's self-sufficiency policy, whose goal is to eliminate the use of out-of-state disposal facilities by the year 2000, violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S.…

The court holds that a county's rezoning of a landowner's beachfront property from residential to private airport use and leasing of the property to an airport tenant was not an…

The court holds that a city's denial of a developer's permit application to develop 37.6 acres of oceanfront property did not substantially advance a legitimate public purpose and denied…

The court holds that an environmental organization whose members use a lake located 18 miles and three tributaries downstream from an oil refinery lack standing to bring a Federal Water Pollution…

The court holds that timber companies, a trade association, and a county lack constitutional and prudential standing to challenge the U.S. Forest Service's interim guidelines on managing…