The Supreme Court of Louisiana held that a property owner who discovered radioactive contamination on his land after he purchased it may not file suit against oil and trucking companies allegedly responsible for that contamination. Under Louisiana law, a property owner has no right or actual interes...

The Third Circuit affirmed a lower court decision granting summary judgment in favor of the U.S. government and imposing a $250,000 fine against a landowner for filling wetlands on his property without a permit. The court joined the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First and Eighth Circuits in holding...