The court vacates a district court decision denying Eleventh Amendment immunity to the commissioner of a state environmental agency who allegedly violated the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) by taking no action to prevent or respond to environmental contamination on a company's land. T...

The court vacates a portion of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation in which it determined that oil-bearing wastewaters generated by the petroleum refining industry are solid wastes under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), but upheld EPA's determination that recove...

The court denies petitions to review the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC's) relicensing of a hydroelectric project in Maine. The petitioners argue that FERC's rejection of minimum flow requirements in a branch of the Penobscot River that is blocked from receiving water due to a dam loca...

The court reverses and remands a district court decision finding a railroad company liable for an employee's injuries because the district court improperly admitted expert testimony. The court first holds that the district court abused its discretion in admitting the expert testimony. Under Daubert ...

The court holds that environmental groups did not show that New York City's plan to sell or bulldoze lots containing community gardens would have an impermissible adverse impact on minority communities. The groups opposed the city's plan claiming that it would violate U.S. Environmental Protection A...

The court denies a construction company's petition to review an administrative law judge's (ALJ's) order upholding a nine-item citation against the company for violating Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards for lead exposure in construction work. The court first holds that ...

The court holds that the state of Connecticut may sue New York State officers in federal district court instead of suing New York State in the U.S. Supreme Court regarding enforcement of an allegedly unconstitutional New York law. The law at issue allows New York residents to obtain commercial lobst...

The court holds that claim preclusion bars an individual's Clean Water Act (CWA) §§402 and 404 suit against a state and state employees for removal of a dam. In state court, the individual challenged the state environmental agency's decision to remove the dam and claimed that remedial steps should...

The court denies motions to dismiss an engineering company's third-party Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), and contractual indemnification claims against the former managing partner of an industrial corporat...

The court upholds a magistrate judge decision that later settling insurers are not obligated to contribute to defense costs paid by insurers that settled earlier with an insured manufacturer involved in asbestos litigation. The court first holds that the magistrate judge incorrectly held that later ...