The court holds that a pollution exclusion clause did not bar an insurer's duty to provide coverage to a city power agency sued by an asbestos removal company for additional remuneration under an asbestos removal contract. The insurer defended the agency and provided funds for a settlement with the ...

The court holds that a North Carolina county did not violate a company's due process or equal protection rights by not issuing the company a building permit for a proposed asphalt plant, by enacting a one-year moratorium on the building of asphalt plants, and by subsequently enacting a polluting ind...

The court holds that the sudden and accidental exception to the pollution exclusion clause contained in a manufacturing company's comprehensive general liability policies bars coverage for trichloroethylene contamination at its facilities. The company argued that the sudden and accidental exception ...

The court affirms a district court holding that individuals failed to provide sufficient evidence of causation and damages to reach the jury on either water or soil pollution claims brought against an oil company. The individuals own the surface estate of a ranch. The mineral estate of the ranch is ...

The court holds that garbage mixed with recyclables is not "property" and, thus, Oregon State county and city trash hauling regulations are not preempted by the Federal Aviation Administration Authorizing Act (FAAAA). The lower court issued a permanent injunction preventing the county and city from ...

The court denies the government's motion for summary judgment in a case brought by an individual alleging that the government effectively took the individual's property without just compensation when it ordered the individual to cease maintenance and operation of a drainage system on his property an...

The court affirms a district court dismissal of a manufacturer's state-law claims against the United States alleging contamination of its property by U.S. Air Force landfills, but reverses the district court's dismissal of the manufacturer's Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Li...

The court reverses the Rhode Island Supreme Court's holding that a landowner's takings claim arising from the state coastal protection agency's denial of the landowner's permit to develop coastal wetlands was not ripe, but affirms the court's holding that the landowner failed to establish a deprivat...

The court affirms in part and reverses in part an appellate court decision holding that the Washington Department of Labor and Industries violated a statutory duty to promulgate a rule requiring mandatory blood testing for agricultural pesticide handlers. A group of agricultural pesticide handlers c...

The court affirms in part and remands in part a district court decision in a suit brought under the False Claims Act (FCA) by an individual and joined in by the U.S. government concerning pollution, environmental law violations, and breach of contract claims at a nuclear weapons plant operated for t...