Civil Procedure

The Ninth Circuit remanded a lower court's award of enhanced attorney fees in favor of an environmental group that sued the U.S. Navy for violating certain environmental laws in connection…

A district court held that the possibility that a settlement might not be collected is neither extraordinary nor unexpected and is therefore insufficient to reopen its final award of damages in an…

A district court denied the trucking industry's motion to preliminarily enjoin two California ports from implementing "concession agreements" designed, among other things, to reduce…

The First Circuit remanded landowners' nuisance, misrepresentation, and civil conspiracy claims against an automobile distributor to the Massachusetts courts. The landowners filed suit in…

A district court granted a motion in limine to exclude a real estate expert's testimony on the value of certain property alleged to have been contaminated with methyl tertiary butyl ether (…

A California appellate court held that a property owner may not intervene in an insurance coverage dispute between an insurance company and the former property owner from which the current owner…

The First Circuit affirmed a lower court order permanently enjoining several members and officials of the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board from imposing a $76 million fine on an oil company…

A district court denied a motion to dismiss claims under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and New York law for lack of evidence demonstrating…

The D.C. Circuit dismissed developers' lawsuit challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' definition of "waters of the United States" in a 1986 rule as facially invalid…

The U.S. Supreme Court held that the statute of limitations governing the U.S. Court of Federal Claims requires sua sponte consideration of the timeliness of a lawsuit filed in that court, despite…