Federal question jurisdiction of district court, 28 U.S.C. §1331(a) properly invoked by state of Texas in its suit for injunction against ranchers' use in New Mexico of chlorinated camphene pesticide which when carried by runoff from rainfall pollutes the water supply of 11 Texas municipalities. U....
The Executive Order that establishes the Kenai National Moose Range on Kenai Peninsula, Alaska (1941) must be construed to include the Tustumena Lake bottom in the federal withdrawal of lands which would otherwise have passed to the state of Alaska upon admission to the Union (Jan. 3, 1959). Not to ...
The Alaska Railroad Act and the Executive Order which implemented it (Aug. 31, 1915) necessarily reserved for the use of the Alaska Railroad as a terminal the tidal and submerged lands contiguous to the ordinary highwater mark on that portion of the eastern shore of Knik Arm, its tidelands and the b...
Plaintiffs, individual members of plaintiff conservation organization, who allege ownership and beneficial use of land in the San Francisco Bay area and potential harm to their interests, have standing to request injunction against defendant's planned landfill of a portion of the Bay. District court...
Core drilling, road building and excavation on limestone mining claims in Pike National Forest preliminarily enjoined because irreparable injury would result to scenic characteristics of area which Forest Service seeks to protect in Bureau of Land Management administrative proceedings that contest t...
The Federal Power Commission's 1964 decision to grant licenses to a private power consortium for the development of hydroelectric power projects at High Mountain Sheep on the Snake River is reversed, because issues regarding whether the federal government, rather than the private sector, should deve...
The state of Ohio's motion for leave to file a bill of complaint in the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, against three chemical manufacturers incorporated outside the state, is denied without prejudice. The state of Ohio sought to abate mercury pollution in Lake Erie that allegedly origin...
Defendants' motions for dismissal granted in two consolidated qui tam actions in which plaintiff was attempting to recover one-half of any fines levied against defendants for violations of the Refuse Act. Citing Bass Anglers Sportsman Society v. U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers, Inc., 1 ELR 20143 (S.D. ...
District court's dismissal of suit under the Freedom of Information Act to compel the Director of the Office of Science and Technology to make public a report on the supersonic transport originally prepared for Dr. Lee A. Dubridge, then-Science Advisor to the president, reversed and case remanded fo...
Petition for certiorari denied without opinion. Justices Douglas and Black, in dissent, express concern that in preparing for the construction of the Benbrook Dam and Reservoir Project, authorized by Congress in 1945, the Army Corps of Engineers has exceeded its statutory authority by taking petitio...