Search Results
Use the filters on the left-hand side of this screen to refine the results further by topic or document type.

Employers Ins. of Wausau v. Duplan Corp.

The court holds that under New York law, insurers are not obligated to defend and indernnify a clothing manufacturer from private and government damage claims stemming from contamination at the manufacturer's New York and Virgin Islands facilities. The manufacturer acquired the two facilities from s...

Dexter v. Cosan Chem. Corp.

The court holds that a chemical company produced sufficient evidence to create a genuine issue of material fact as to the existence and terms of a lost insurance policy. The company submitted its claim for defense and indemnity costs incurred in connection with the remediation of contamination at th...

Boothbay, Town of v. Getty Oil Co.

The court holds that under Maine law, the doctrine of res judicata bars a town from suing a gasoline company for environmental damage affecting the town's water supply insofar as the state previously litigated and settled claims against the same company for the same environmental damage. The court f...

Fiore v. White

The Court certifies to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court the question of whether it either correctly applied Pennsylvania's hazardous waste law or changed the application of the law when it held in Commonwealth v. Scarpone, 535 Pa. 273 (1993), that a hazardous waste facility operator holding a permit c...

Brown v. United States

The court holds time barred Native Americans' claims that the United States breached its fiduciary duties in connection with the administration of a tribal land lease. The court first holds that the six-year statute of limitations pertaining to the claim that the government failed to determine that ...

Boise Cascade Corp. v. State

The court reverses and remands a jury verdict awarding damages to a logging company that alleged that the state caused a temporary taking by refusing to permit logging on a parcel of the company's property on which a pair of northern spotted owls were nesting. The court first holds that because of t...

Bonnie Briar Syndicate, Inc. v. Mamaroneck, Town of

The court holds that a town's decision to rezone a landowner's property from residential to solely recreational use did not constitute a regulatory taking under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The court first rejects the landowner's contention that the town must demonst...

Mayaguezanos por la Salud y el Ambiente v. United States

The court holds that the failure of the United States to regulate the passage of a ship carrying nuclear waste through waters in the U.S. exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is not a major federal action. Therefore, the court dismisses an environmental group's National Environmental Policy Act claims agai...

Seattle, City of v. Washington State Dep't of Transp.

The court holds that although a state department of transportation is technically liable under the Washington Model Toxics Control Act (MTCA) for the disposal of a tank car at a Superfund site, the department need not pay remedial action costs to a group of utilities that cleaned up the site. The de...

E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. v. Florida Evergreen Foliage

The court holds that under Delaware law, a tort claimant that was fraudulently induced to release another from liability may rescind the release or may file a separate suit for fraud. A Florida nursery entered a settlement agreement that released a Delaware corporation from future liability. Subsequ...