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Northern States Power Co. v. National Gas Co.

The court upholds a contract between a gasoline corporation and the owner of a mobile home park in Shelby, Wisconsin, that requires the residents of the park to purchase their propane and natural gas from the corporation at its customary rates. A public utility filed suit against the corporation, cl...

Parks Hiway Enters., L.L.C. v. CEM Leasing, Inc.

The court holds that a gasoline distributor is not liable for groundwater contamination caused by a service station's leaking underground storage tanks (USTs). The owner of property adjacent to the service station filed suit against the distributor after settling with the service station for groundw...

Banning v. State Dep't of Fish & Wildlife

The court holds that property owners who built unpermitted structures on a county's right-of-way so that they could access adjacent tidelands did not hold property rights in the structures and could not seek compensation under the state constitution, the U.S. Constitution, or state limited access fa...

U & I Sanitation v. Columbus, City of

The court holds that a city ordinance requiring all garbage collected within city limits, except garbage destined for out-of-state disposal, to be processed at the city-owned transfer station violates the dormant U.S. Commerce Clause. A waste hauler discovered it could dispose of waste more economic...

Bragg v. Robertson

The court accepts and enters a consent decree between a citizen group and West Virginia's environmental agency that commits the agency to strengthen the application and oversight of the state's surface coal mining program authorized under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA). The g...

Lilly v. Caroline County

The court holds that a trial court correctly ruled that landowners, aggrieved by a zoning administrator's oral decision, failed to exhaust administrative remedies by not filing a timely appeal to the board of zoning appeals, as required by state statute. The landowners contested the zoning administr...

NRC Corp. v. Amoco Oil Co.

The court affirms a district court ruling that an oil company that operated a service station on leased property was liable to the lessor for all damages caused by a leaking underground storage tank, including the lessor's inability to sell or lease the property immediately surrounding the leased pr...

State ex rel. Lucas County Bd. of Comm'rs v. Ohio EPA

The court denies a county board of commissioners' petition to compel the Ohio environmental agency to disclose records designated as trade secrets that the agency received from a hazardous waste facility. The court first holds that oral argument is not warranted here because the parties' briefs are ...

Florida Dep't of Natural Resources v. Garcia

The court holds that a state could be held negligent for failing to remove underwater debris that injured a swimmer even though the state environmental agency never formally designated for swimming the beach where the swimmer was injured. The court first holds that a formal designation of a beach as...

Harrison v. Waste Sys. Auth. of E. Montgomery County

The court holds that a solid waste hauler has standing to bring a U.S. Commerce Clause claim against a waste district authority for instructing homeowners and commercial entities in the district to subtract a district waste generation fee from the contractually agreed to price paid to their waste ha...