The court affirms a district court holding that an oil producers association contesting the U.S. Department of the Interior's (DOI's) take-or-pay royalties policy failed to challenge a final agency action and, therefore, the court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the association's complaint. ...

The court affirms a trial court holding that three comprehensive general liability insurers could not be required to defend or indemnify an insured property owner with respect to environmental cleanup costs and other liabilities arising from property that the owner did not own during the relevant po...

The U.S. Supreme Court holds that the criminal conviction of a hazardous waste facility operator under a Pennsylvania hazardous waste statute for operating a hazardous waste facility without a permit violated the federal Due Process Clause. When the operator was convicted, he in fact had a permit, b...

The court upholds a Court of International Trade (CIT) decision denying an animal rights group's request to issue a writ of mandamus directing the U.S. president to impose import restrictions on Italy for violating the Driftnet Fishing Act, and denying their request for an order requiring the Secret...

The court holds that the repeal and replacement of a 1996 statutory amendment to the Federal Aviation Reauthorizaton Act governing the placement of landfills near commercial airports moots and requires vacatur of a potential landfill operator's facial attacks on the constitutionality of the amendmen...

The court holds that an insurer providing a liability policy that covers damage to tangible property on the insureds' premises has no duty to defend the insureds in an easement dispute. The dispute arose after the insureds graded an access road on their property that allegedly interfered with their ...

The court affirms the Court of Federal Claims' dismissal of individuals' claims that the enactment of the Seneca Nation Land Claims Settlement Act (SNLCSA) constituted a taking of property rights that the individuals held on the Allegany Reservation of the Seneca Nation of Indians (SNI). The individ...

The court holds that a natural gas storage facility operator may go forward with its federal preemption action against a state environmental agency in which it seeks a declaratory judgment enjoining the agency from revisiting its issuance of various state permits to the operator. After the operator'...

The court holds that an environmental group had standing under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to challenge the adequacy of the U.S. Navy's environmental impact statement (EIS) regarding the future use of the Long Beach Naval Station in California, but the group did not establish taxpay...

The court holds that an insurer's duty to indemnify an insured under a standard comprehensive general liability (CGL) insurance policy does not extend to fines imposed on the insured by state administrative agencies for groundwater contamination cleanup and abatement at one of the insured's sites, b...