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Sac & Fox Nation of Mo. v. Norton

The court holds that the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) had a non-discretionary duty to take into trust land purchased by the Wyandotte Tribe in Kansas, and, therefore, no National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and no National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) analysis was necessary before a...

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

The court holds that New York City must obtain state legislative approval before it can build a water filtration plant at a city park. Legislative approval is required when there is a substantial intrusion on parkland for non-park purposes, regardless of whether there has been an outright conveyance...

National Parks & Conservation Ass'n v. Babbitt

The court reverses a district court decision and holds that the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) violated the National Environmental Policy Act when it implemented a vessel management plan (VMP) for the Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska without preparing an environmental impact statement (EIS). Th...

Entergy Arkansas, Inc. v. Nebraska

The court affirms in part and reverses in part a district court decision holding that certain beneficiaries to the Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact (the Compact) had a right to sue Nebraska for acts delaying the construction of the Compact's disposal facility and that the state...

California Power Exch. Corp. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Comm'n

The court denies a California public utility's petition for a writ of mandamus staying various aspects of a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) order addressing the crisis surrounding California's restructuring of its electricity market, and denies a city's petition for mandamus ordering FER...

Friends of Sierra Madre v. Sierra Madre, City of

The court holds that initiative measures generated and placed on the ballot by a public agency are not exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The city of Sierra Madre enacted a historic preservation ordinance, and several owners of landmarked property claimed that their propert...

Flo-Sun, Inc. v. Kirk

The court dismisses individuals' public nuisance action against sugar companies that allegedly disposed of a chemical byproduct of sugar cane processing by deep well injection. A trial court dismissed the individuals' nuisance claim because the individuals did not exhaust their administrative remedi...

Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Or. v. United States

The court vacates and remands a trial court decision holding that Native American tribes were not entitled to damages attributable to the government's mismanagement of Native American timber resources. The trial court found that the government breached its fiduciary duty by mismanaging the tribes' t...

Brody v. Mason, City of

The court affirms a district court decision holding that a city did not violate property owners' procedural and substantive due process rights when it granted a neighboring property owner a special use permit allowing the operation of a beauty salon and the paving of a yard. The court first holds th...

Idaho v. United States

The U.S. Supreme Court holds that the federal government holds title in trust for the Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe to submerged lands underlying portions of Lake Coeur d'Alene and the St. Joe River in Idaho. The reservation was created by executive order in 1873, but it was never ratified by Congress....