The court upholds a district court order enjoining the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and three Rhode Island employees from proceeding in an administrative adjudication of the employees' claims that the state had retaliated against them in violation of the Solid Waste Disposal Act's (SWDA's) whistle...

The court affirms a Court of Federal Claims' determination that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) did not take developers' property when it denied them a Clean Water Act §404 permit to develop their entire property. After several failed attempts to develop the property, the developers so...

The court dismisses several tort and contract claims that a hazardous waste site remediation company brought against the trustees of an Indiana Superfund site and two companies that performed environmental services at the site, but allows the remediation company to continue with its unjust enrichmen...

The court holds that individuals and state agencies have standing to bring suit against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for possible damages from heightened water salinity that will occur in their area due to the BLM's water resources management plan even though the individuals and state agencie...

The court holds that a local planning commission violated property owners' Fifth Amendment rights by vacating a restrictive covenant in their neighborhood for a private purpose. The commission vacated the covenant, which restricted development to single-family homes, in order to allow a developer to...

The court reverses a district court dismissal of two counts of an environmental group's suit alleging that five U.S. Forest Service (Forest Service) timber sales in the Payette National Forest in Idaho violate the National Forest Management Act (NFMA). The two dismissed counts alleged that the Fores...

The court denies manufacturers' motions to dismiss property owners' common-law claims against them for allegedly contaminating the owners' land. The manufacturers argued that the property owners' claims were time barred under New York law. Under state law, the property owners had either three years ...

The court holds that the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) did not violate the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) when it authorized and issued a finding of no significant impact for the taking of land into trust for a California Native American t...

The court affirms a district court holding that a city's denial of a company's application to develop shoreline property did not violate the company's state or federal due process rights and did not result in a taking. The court first holds that the company's federal due process claim was properly d...

The court holds that intervenors in an environmental group's Endangered Species Act (ESA) suit lacked standing to appeal a district court's decision upholding a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) biological opinion (BO) for the endangered silvery minnow. The group alleged that the BO was lacking b...