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Atlantic Coast Demolition & Recycling, Inc. v. Board of Chosen Freeholders

The court reverses and remands a district court decision that New Jersey's solid waste flow control regulations, which require each state district to designate a particular facility to process and dispose of all solid waste generated within the district, do not violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S...

Cotto Waxo Co. v. Williams

The court holds that it cannot declare as a matter of law that a Minnesota statute prohibiting the sale of petroleum-based cleaning products does not violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The court first holds that the statute's language clearly and unambiguously prohibits all Minnes...

Gibbs v. E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co.

The court refuses to dismiss a tort-law claim that a tire manufacturer's former employees' brought against chemical companies that allegedly sold toxic chemical compounds to the manufacturer without adequately warning that exposure to the chemicals may cause bladder cancer. The court first holds tha...

Cereghino v. Boeing Co.

The court holds that the owner of a manufacturing facility is not liable for negligent trespass or nuisance in connection with contamination of neighboring landowners' groundwater with trichloroethane (TCA). The court dismissed the landowners' claims arising out of trichloroethylene (TCE) contaminat...

Chambers Medical Technologies of S.C., Inc. v. Bryant

The court remands the question whether a South Carolina statutory cap on in-state commercial incineration of infectious waste violates the U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause for further proceedings on whether the state legislature enacted it for a discriminatory purpose and whether the statute disc...

Forest Conservation Council v. U.S. Forest Serv.

The court holds that Arizona and an Arizona county may intervene as of right in the injunctive relief portion of an action alleging that the U.S. Forest Service (Forest Service) violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the National Forest Management Act (NFMA) in managing northern g...

Harvey & Harvey, Inc. v. Chester, County of

The court reverses and remands district court judgments that applied the incorrect legal standard concerning challenges under the dormant Commerce Clause to two Pennsylvania counties' solid waste flow-control plans, which generally require waste haulers to dispose of solid waste generated within the...

Citizens Elec. Corp. v. Bituminous Fire & Marine Ins. Co.

Applying Illinois law, the court holds that insurers of a dissolved corporation that was party to a consent judgment as a defendant in a Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) cost recovery action must respond to plaintiffs' garnishment requests, even though t...

Boughton v. Cotter Corp.

The court holds that plaintiffs in a toxic tort case were not entitled at trial to be certified as a class for medical monitoring, to depose an attorney for the defendant uranium mill, or to present evidence of their fear of contracting disease, and that the trial court properly refused to pierce th...

HM Holdings, Inc. v. Rankin

The court holds that the presence of hazardous waste on industrial property that a company sold to an individual does not breach any express or implied warranties. The court first finds that the purchase and sale agreement contains no express warranties as to the condition of the property, and a rid...