The court reverses and remands a lower court decision that a city's dewatering activities did not constitute a taking of homeowners' property. The court previously certified the issue to the Ohio Supreme Court, and that court held that Ohio homeowners have a property interest in the groundwater unde...

The court dismisses a group of residents' claims challenging the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA's) decision to take certain land into trust for the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians so that it could be used in part for a proposed casino. The BIA's preparation of an environmental assessment rather t...

A court reverses a lower court decision denying animal activists' motion to strike state employees' workplace violence protective orders under the state's anti-SLAPP statute. Following a nighttime protest at one of the employees' homes, a trial court issued temporary restraining orders against the a...

The court dismisses an environmental group's claims that the National Park Service (NPS) failed to comply with certain statutory mandates, deadlines, and management policies involving national park management, and denied the group's non-statutory claim that the NPS failed to develop wilderness manag...

The court holds that the employee of a state environmental agency is not shielded from liability under Missouri's absolute privilege doctrine in a case alleging tortious interference with a contract. The operator of a surface coal mining and reclamation project filed suit against the state employee ...

A court vacates an order overruling a county board's demurrer in an environmental group's action seeking to compel the board to conduct an environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) before placing a sales tax measure on a ballot or to prevent implementation of the mea...

The court approves a decree quieting title to certain marine submerged lands in Southeast Alaska. Under the decree, the United States has title to the submerged lands underlying the pockets and enclaves of water that are more than three geographical miles from every point on the coastline of the mai...

The court affirms the grant of summary judgment in favor of the United States in property owners' Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) action for damages to their homes in Puerto Rico resulting from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (the Corps') disposal of dredged material on a nearby beach. The owners' ...

A court reverses a lower court decision dismissing a landowner's regulatory takings claims against a county as unripe. The county's determination that the landowner could only build one residence on his property amounts to a final decision, and the permissible use of the property is known to a reaso...

The court holds that a state statute concerning the shooting of small game from a public right-of-way does not constitute a compensable taking under the U.S. or South Dakota Constitutions. Lacking more than intermittent and temporary invasions, or the placement of a fixed structure upon the land by ...