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Employers Ins. of Wausau v. United States

The court holds that the United States is not liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for response costs incurred by an insurance company following a determination by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that the company was responsible under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensati...

Dolan v. Tigard, City of

The court holds that the attachment to landowners' development permits of conditions that require landowners to dedicate portions of their property for public use is not a taking of property that violates the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. A city granted the landowners' application for re...

Chaveriat v. Williams Pipe Line Co.

The Seventh Circuit upholds a district court's grant of summary judgment to the defendant prior owner of a petroleum carrying pipeline on plaintiffs landowners' claim for nuisance damages from a 1944 leak of unleaded gasoline. In 1986, while trying to sell the land, the landowners discovered petrole...

Chemical Leaman Tank Lines, Inc. v. Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co.

The court holds that a tank truck company is not entitled to summary judgment on claims against its insurers for indemnification of costs resulting from a government action against it under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) with respect to soil and gr...

CPC Int'l, Inc. v. Aerojet-General Corp.

Applying Michigan law to an insurance dispute, the court adopts the doctrines of known-risk and loss-in-progress, and denies coverage because the insured's environmental director knew or reasonably should have known of a substantial probability of a loss caused by groundwater contamination at the si...

Bituminous Casualty Corp. v. Tonka Corp.

The court holds that an insurer has no duty under its comprehensive general liability insurance (CGL) policies to defend or indemnify a toy manufacturer subject to state administrative enforcement proceedings to remedy groundwater contamination resulting from the insured's release of trichloroethyle...

Bonner v. ISP Technologies, Inc.

The court affirms a district court decision upholding a jury verdict ordering the manufacturer of an organic cleaning solvent to pay an assembly line worker $2.2 million in damages for injuries she sustained after being sprayed with the product at her work. She alleged that the product caused her to...

New York, City of v. Mineta

The court holds that the Secretary of Transportation did not violate the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (AIR21) in granting take-off and landing slots to airlines servicing New York's Kennedy and LaGuardia Airpo...

Bugenig v. Hoopa Valley Tribe

The court affirms a district court decision that a Native American tribe in California has the authority to regulate logging by a non-Native American who owns fee lands within the reservation. In 1995, the tribe, pursuant to its constitution, adopted a timber-harvesting plan for the reservation that...

Esicorp, Inc. v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

The court holds that most of a company's claimed losses arising from the need to repair defective pipe welds that a laboratory had failed to discover were not property damages covered by the laboratory's insurance policy. The company did not argue that the defective pipes burst or caused accidental ...