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Scottish Guarantee Ins. Co. v. Dwyer

The court holds that under Wisconsin law, an insurer has a duty to defend its insured under the "wrongful entry" clause of a commercial policy against negligent trespass claims for damage to groundwells caused by a release of chemicals in a fire. The commercial policy defined its personal injury cov...

Bell Lumber & Pole Co. v. U.S. Fire Ins. Co.

The court holds that under Minnesota law, an insured wood treatment company's deliberate disposal of pentachlorophenol (penta) sludge on the ground is not an "occurrence" within the meaning of primary comprehensive general liability or umbrella excess liability policies. Also, the court holds that t...

Kleen Laundry & Dry Cleaning Servs., Inc. v. Total Waste Management Corp.

The court holds that the buyer of assets of three business entities that had leased underground oil storage tanks from a property owner may be held liable for the property owner's hazardous waste cleanup costs as a successor to one of the three predecessor corporations. The court first holds that st...

O'Neal v. Department of the Army

The court holds that landowners whose wells were contaminated by toxic chemicals migrating from a U.S. Army aircraft maintenance facility failed to prove that the Army was negligent, and that they were entitled to medical monitoring costs, and damages for emotional distress and diminution of value o...

Northwest Resource Info. Ctr. v. Northwest Power Planning Council

The court holds that the Pacific Northwest Electric Power and Conservation Planning Council (Council) violated the Northwest Power Act (NPA) §839b(h)(7) and the Administrative Procedure Act by failing to explain, in its final amendments to its fish and wildlife program for the Columbia River Basin,...

Ethyl Corp. v. EPA

The court vacates a district court's summary judgment for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a gasoline additive manufacturer's action under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to compel EPA to produce records relating to the denial of a waiver of approval for the additive. The cour...

Tucker v. Southern Wood Piedmont Co.

The court holds that under §309 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Georgia's four-year statute of limitations for torts involving property damage began to run when the owners of land adjacent to a contaminated wood treatment site discovered the ha...

Applegate v. United States

The court holds that the applicable six-year statute of limitations does not bar landowners' takings claims arising from their loss of shoreline property resulting from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (Corps') construction and operation of a deep-water harbor where the situation had not stabilized...

Nebraska v. Rural Electrification Admin.

Applying Nebraska law, the court holds that the instrument creating the Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust authorizes the trust to participate in Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) relicensing hearings for two hydroelectric projects on the Platte River and in litigation involving...

Schwartzman, Inc. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry.

The court holds that the primary jurisdiction doctrine requires it to stay a landowner's claims for injunctive relief against the owner of a railroad tie treatment site for polluting the landowner's groundwater and that the landowner established material facts precluding summary judgment on its stat...