A court affirms a trial court judgment condemning three residential rental properties for redevelopment purposes in a quick take eminent domain proceeding. In quick take eminent domain proceedings, the date of valuation of the property, for purposes of trial on the issue of the property owner's just...

A court reverses a lower court decision enjoining a city's peafowl management program that allowed a minimum peafowl population on certain city-owned parkland and canyon property. Residents opposing the program argued that the program violated restrictions in deeds by which the municipality obtained...

A court holds that a municipality may not lawfully require the owner of a private single-family residence who proposes to modify a portion of the interior of his residence, in an area not visible to the general public, to undergo a review of the proposed project pursuant to the California Environmen...

The court holds that a solid waste management district regulation requiring solid waste to be disposed at either in-district or out-of-state landfills, unless otherwise authorized, does not violate the U.S. or Arkansas Constitutions. The regulation does not violate the Commerce Clause because it is ...

A court affirms a trial court ruling that a nonprofit organization failed to demonstrate that the manufacturers and distributors of plumbing parts discharged lead into a source of California drinking water in violation of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, commonly known as Propositi...

The court reverses and remands a lower court decision that a city's dewatering activities did not constitute a taking of homeowners' property. The court previously certified the issue to the Ohio Supreme Court, and that court held that Ohio homeowners have a property interest in the groundwater unde...

The court dismisses a group of residents' claims challenging the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA's) decision to take certain land into trust for the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians so that it could be used in part for a proposed casino. The BIA's preparation of an environmental assessment rather t...

A court reverses a lower court decision denying animal activists' motion to strike state employees' workplace violence protective orders under the state's anti-SLAPP statute. Following a nighttime protest at one of the employees' homes, a trial court issued temporary restraining orders against the a...

The court dismisses an environmental group's claims that the National Park Service (NPS) failed to comply with certain statutory mandates, deadlines, and management policies involving national park management, and denied the group's non-statutory claim that the NPS failed to develop wilderness manag...

The court holds that the employee of a state environmental agency is not shielded from liability under Missouri's absolute privilege doctrine in a case alleging tortious interference with a contract. The operator of a surface coal mining and reclamation project filed suit against the state employee ...