Weekly Cases Update Volume 41, Issue 11

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ELR 20279No. 10-70718(9th Cir., )

The Ninth Circuit remanded the FAA's decision not to prepare an EIS in conjunction with its approval of an airport runway construction project.

Keywords:
Airports
ELR 20281No. 10-35646(9th Cir., )

The Ninth Circuit held that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation took the requisite "hard look" under NEPA in its analysis of a proposed incremental drawdown of water from Lake Roosevelt in Washington state.

Keywords:
Cumulative impacts
ELR 20282No. 10-4876(D.N.J., )

A district court dismissed a development company's CERCLA contribution claim against a large corporation for costs the company incurred investigating and remediating environmental contamination on property caused by the corporation's legal predecessor.

Keywords:
Held not available, Corporations
ELR 20274No. A129646(Cal. App. 1st Dist., )

A California appellate court held that a county complied with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) prior to approving the development of a large beverage distribution facility project.

Keywords:
Environmental Assessment/Impact Statement, Environmental impact reports (EIRs)
ELR 20276No. F060098(Cal. App. 5th Dist. , )

A California appellate court reversed a lower court decision denying a gasoline station owner's petition challenging the validity of $1,148,200 in civil penalties imposed against him by a county for underground gasoline storage tanks violations.

Keywords:
California
ELR 20277E050452(Cal. App. 4th Dist., )

A California appellate court affirmed a lower court decision dismissing homeowners' inverse condemnation claim against a county for damages they sustained following storm-induced floods in 2003 and 2004.

Keywords:
Inverse condemnation

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