The court affirms a district court decision upholding a jury verdict ordering the manufacturer of an organic cleaning solvent to pay an assembly line worker $2.2 million in damages for injuries she sustained after being sprayed with the product at her work. She alleged that the product caused her to...

The court affirms a district court decision that a Native American tribe in California has the authority to regulate logging by a non-Native American who owns fee lands within the reservation. In 1995, the tribe, pursuant to its constitution, adopted a timber-harvesting plan for the reservation that...

The court holds that most of a company's claimed losses arising from the need to repair defective pipe welds that a laboratory had failed to discover were not property damages covered by the laboratory's insurance policy. The company did not argue that the defective pipes burst or caused accidental ...

The court holds that owners of land in South Carolina adjacent to both land containing a historic plantation and an African American cemetery and land on which a road crossing is constructed have standing to bring a National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) challenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engine...

The court affirms a district court's denial of attorney fees to an individual who prevailed in his challenge to the U.S. Forest Service's decision to expand a ski area in a national forest. The individual brought suit claiming that the Forest Service's failure to adequately explore reasonable altern...

The court affirms a lower court holding that a pollution exclusion clause in a warehouse owner's commercial general liability insurance policy excludes coverage of contamination from xylene fumes. Contractors building an addition to the warehouse improperly used a xylene-based sealant, the fumes of ...

The court denies a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' motion to change venue in an environmental group's suit against it for violating the Clean Water Act (CWA) §404 by authorizing a surface mining company to fill streams with waste rock under a nationwide permit and without an environmental impact stat...

The court denies an electric utility and trade association coalition's motion to intervene in mediation leading to and subsequent enforcement of an amended consent decree between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and an environmental group under which EPA agreed to promulgate Clean Wate...

The court affirms a district court holding that a development company failed to exhaust adequate state remedies in challenging as a taking a special assessment levied by a village. In 1980, the village entered an agreementto construct a local sewer system and levied reserve capacity assessments to f...

The court holds that because Title VI proscribes only intentional discrimination, residents of a predominantly minority community do not have a right to enforce through 42 U.S.C. §1983 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Title VI §602 disparate impact discrimination regulations agai...