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Brown v. Olin Chem. Corp.

The court affirms a district court's grant of summary judgment to a Louisiana sulfuric acid manufacturer, emissions from which allegedly harmed a casino and its employees. In order to complete construction of a riverboat, the casino rented riverfront space near the manufacturer. During construction,...

Friends of Van Cortlandt Park v. New York, City of

The court certifies a question to the New York Court of Appeals whether state legislative approval is required before New York City can construct a water treatment plant (WTP) under parkland in the Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. The city planned to build the WTP pursuant to a consent decree betwee...

Baker v. Coxe

The court affirms a district court decision holding that various state environmental officials' delay in approving a permit to build a pier did not violate the applicants' due process, equal protection, or First Amendment rights. In 1991, the applicants, who own a tree farm on an island off the coas...

US Ecology, Inc. v. Department of the Interior

The court holds that a low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) facility developer lacks standing to challenge the Secretary of the Interior's rescission of its previous record of decision approving the sale and transfer of federal land to the state of California, which would have allowed the developer to...

Anderson v. Red River Waterway Comm'n

The court affirms a district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of a local commission charged with maintaining and operating the Red River Waterway in Louisiana in an inverse condemnation suit brought against it by riparian landowners whose property was flooded after the U.S. Army Corps of E...

Ingram v. Pine Bluff, City of

The court affirms a district court decision holding unripe a property owner's federal takings claim against a city for demolishing his building because the owner failed to seek compensation for the taking through available state procedures. The court holds that the property owner must bring an actio...

Sandia, Pueblo of v. Babbitt

The court holds that it lacks jurisdiction to hear intervening homeowners' appeal of a suit concerning a boundary dispute between Native Americans and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Native Americans sued DOI claiming that an 1859 government survey erroneous...

Pownal Dev. Corp. v. Pownal Tanning Co.

The court affirms a trial court decree allowing a developer to partially foreclose on nine parcels of land while not foreclosing on a 10th contaminated parcel. A tannery owned the land at issue and contaminated the land surrounding its mill. The mill parcel was listed as a Superfund site and underwe...

Soho Alliance v. New York City Bd. of Standards & Appeals

The court affirms the New York City Board of Standards and Appeals' (BSA's) decision to grant use variances permitting the development of two neighboring properties in a New York City historic district and to issue a negative declaration that the development did not require an environmental impact s...

Lower Elwha Band of S'Klallams v. Lummi Indian Tribe

The court holds that a 1978 case concerning Native American fishing rights in the Puget Sound intended for the Lummi Indian Tribe's usual and accustomed fishing areas to include Admiralty Inlet but not the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the mouth of the Hood Canal. In the 1978 action, the court determin...