Plaintiffs' request for declaratory and injunctive relief to prevent further work on Baer Field Expressway on grounds that defendants failed to comply with Department of Transportation Act, the Federal Aid Highway Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act is denied. Failure of highway administr...
Air Pollution Commission's abatement order cannot stand where hearing examiner's finding that petitioner's coke ovens violated state air pollution standards was based upon visual observations of expert witness unaided by Ringelmann Smoke Chart or other available scientific methods for determining sm...
Defendant motor vehicle manufacturers' motion to dismiss this class action products libility case granted. The court found the case was too complex for city of Chicago to represent adequately the class which it purports to represent—all individual and corporate Illinois citizens resident in Chicag...
On remand from the United States Supreme Court for trial on the issue of whether the Secretary acted arbitrarily in approving a segment of interstate highway to be located in Overton Park, see Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe, 1 ELR 20110 (U.S. Mar. 2, 1971), the district court issues a Pr...
City of New Haven, which operates airport built with federal funds and operated under National Airport Plan, is liable under "inverse condemnation" theory for property damage to residents over whose property jet planes fly causing soot, noise and vibrations. New Haven not liable to those property ho...
Where defendant maintained unfenced junkyard which presented fire hazard due to presence of combustible materials, health hazard because water in and under cars was breeding ground for mosquitos, safety hazard because site was attraction for children, and pollution hazard because of on-property burn...
Interlocutory order of district court requiring in camera examination of certain documents for which plaintiffs sought discovery in their suit to enjoin the detonation of a nuclear warhead on Amchitka Island (Project Cannikin) is affirmed. Executive privilege does not bar the judiciary from in camer...
Plaintiffs motion for summary reversal and stay of the district court's order denying a preliminary injunction of an underground nuclear explosion (Project Cannikin) on Amchitka Island is denied, although substantial doubt exists as to the adequacy of the Commission's impact statement under NEPA, be...
Application for Injunction to delay detonation of nuclear warhead on Amchitka Island, "Cannikin," presented to the Chief Justice and referred by him to the Court, is denied. Justices Brennan, Marshall, and Douglas dissent because they find the case presents a substantial question as to the legality ...
Section 23 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1968 construed as not exempting the Three Sisters Bridge and three other District of Columbia Interstate Highway projects from the planning requirements of federal highway law, including the public hearing requirements. Were the statute interpreted as den...