Secretary of the Interior's cancellation of contracts for the extraction and sale of helium to government that were awarded under National Helium Act, 50 U.S.C. §§167 et seq. are enjoined pending court review. The Secretary's exercise of discretionary authority under the National Helium Act, so as...
Suit to enjoin the sale of timber and patent of land in the Tongass National Forest dismissed. Plaintiffs, national and local conservation organizations, having standing to represent the interests of their members who will suffer direct and obvious injury to their aesthetic, conservational and recre...
Chicago residents and taxpayers have standing to challenge the Chicago Park District's decision to use parklands held in the public trust as sites for public schools and recreation facilities. The Public Building Commission Act, two amendments to the School Code and an amendment to the Park District...
Request for interim relief from state prosecution under Wisconsin statute which regulates pollution of the Mississippi River by boats denied, because record inadequate to support finding that application of statute to plaintiff would constitute (1) violation of equal protection clause of the fourtee...
Defendant Federal Trade Commission's motion to dismiss or for summary judgment granted in suit in which plaintiff detergent manufacturers' requested declaratory and injunctive relief restraining the FTC from proceeding further with proposed rulemaking under which, if the rule were adopted, synthetic...
Plaintiffs' request denied for a preliminary injunction against further implementation of the planned North/South Freeway connector in Spokane, because (1) federal causes alleged under (a) Highway Act provisions governing the relocation of persons displaced by freeways, (b) the National Environmenta...
Atomic Energy Commission's denial of request at hearing to consider evidence of nonradiological thermal pollution, and refusal to determine effects of National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 in permit hearings on construction of New York nuclear power station, not reviewable by federal district co...
The United States' reserved rights to water within a particular state's jurisdiction, like any rights to water within a state's jurisdiction that the United States may acquire under state law, are subject to binding decision in courts of the state. The consent-to-be-sued provision of the Reclamation...
State proceedings which determine all rights to the water of a particular river system within a state, although initiated anew each month to adjust rights of new claimants, consitute general adjudication within the meaning of the Reclamation Act, and the United States has consented to be joined in s...
Noise caused by jet aircraft flying over or near residential properties in the neighborhood of Los Angeles International Airport that results in a substantial diminution in the market value of these properties, constitutes a "taking or damaging" of property within the meaning of the California Const...