The court dismisses a company's petition for review of a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Administration Review Board (ARB) order remanding for further fact-finding and consideration an employee's claim that the company violated the Clean Air Act's (CAA's) and Toxic Substances Control Act's (TSCA's) w...
The court denies a petition for review seeking reversal of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator's decision not to object to a state agency's determination that the heightened permitting requirements of the prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) program do not apply to ...
The court holds that a school construction authority properly appropriated property being held by a redevelopment group in order for the authority to build a new school. The property is one of seven parcels that New York City leased to the redevelopment group in 1978 for 90 years under an urban rene...
The court affirms the dismissal of two class actions brought by residents of Peru and Ecuador against a U.S. oil company for environmental and personal injuries arising out of the company's oil exploration and extraction operations between 1964 and 1992. The residents sought money damages under theo...
The court holds that Arizona's cap on nonresident hunting of antlered deer and bull elk substantially affects and discriminates against interstate commerce and remands the case for further proceedings to determine whether Arizona has met its burden of showing that it has no other means to advance it...
The court reverses a district court judgment denying Florida's and a hydropower company's motions to intervene as defendants in Georgia's lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) to compel the Corps to increase the water supply available to Atlanta. The court first holds that Flo...
The court reverses a district court decision that the New Mexico Forest Conservation Act (FCA) preempted a county timber harvest ordinance and that the ordinance's environmental assessment provision included an invalid delegation of unlimited power to the county and zoning commission. The court firs...
The court reverses a district court's denial on timeliness grounds of environmental groups' motion to intervene in a suit between the United States and a county regarding the status of a U.S. Forest Service (Forest Service) road. In 1999, the Forest Service sued a citizen group to prevent it from re...
The court holds that the federal government failed to show how limiting permits for eagle feathers only to members of federally recognized tribes is the least restrictive means of advancing the government's interests in preserving eagle populations and protecting Native American culture. An individu...
The court affirms a district court decision that a county's denial of a company's permit application to operate a landfill on its property was not a taking under state law and did not violate the U.S. Commerce Clause or the Sherman Antitrust Act. The court first holds that the company did not meet t...