The court holds that a Minnesota waste management statute that requires public entities to comply with county waste management plans does not violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution by barring the importation of waste processing services. Minnesota statute §115A.46 requires public enti...

The court holds that the Secretary of the Interior must continue to process a mining company's patent application for mining lode claims to determine whether it is exempt from a statutory moratorium on expenditure of funds for processing patent applications. On September 30, 1994, Congress enacted t...

The court holds that it lacks jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal of a district court's refusal to hold a pre-indictment hearing to determine if the government improperly used compelled employee statements in a grand jury proceeding regarding an explosion at a rocket-fuel manufacturing facilit...

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...

The court denies a union's request to compel the U.S. Department of Labor to promulgate an emergency temporary standard to protect mine workers from exposure to respirable coal mine dust. The court first holds that the union failed to satisfy its burden of showing that an emergency temporary standar...

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...

The court vacates a district court declaratory judgment stating that a pollution exclusion clause in a landlord's insurance policy precluded coverage against a tenant's lead poisoning claim. The district court issued the judgment during the pendency of a state court action addressing the same issue....

The court holds that, applying the "place of operations" test, a district court lacks federal diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §1332 to hear a manufacturer's slander, libel, malicious prosecution, and equitable relief claims against an environmental group arising from the group's Clean Air Ac...

The court upholds a Court of International Trade (CIT) decision denying an animal rights group's request to issue a writ of mandamus directing the U.S. president to impose import restrictions on Italy for violating the Driftnet Fishing Act, and denying their request for an order requiring the Secret...

The court holds that the repeal and replacement of a 1996 statutory amendment to the Federal Aviation Reauthorizaton Act governing the placement of landfills near commercial airports moots and requires vacatur of a potential landfill operator's facial attacks on the constitutionality of the amendmen...