Petition for certiorari (granted by the Court on Dec. 21, 1970, argument heard on Feb. 22, 1971) is dismissed as improvidently granted. Justices Douglas, Black, Brennan, and Marshall, who had voted to grant the petition originally, dissent. In their opinion, the provisions of the Federal-Aid Highway...

A congressman may recover the statutory informer's fees for supplying information leading to a conviction for discharging refuse into navigable waters in violation of §13 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, 33 U.S.C. §407. Public policy reasons do not prevent claimant congressman from recoverin...

Where the state legislature delegated responsibility for formulating and enforcing air pollution control standards to countywide pollution control districts and where district hearing board denied permit to public utility for construction of electrical generating unit on grounds that unit would viol...

Trial court erred in failing to direct verdict for defendant where plaintiff claimed fish in his pond were killed by activity of Shell. Evidence showed fish died from increase in alkalinity of water caused by presence of foreign substance, that oil company performed work on nearby well 6-8 days befo...

State attorney general may move under nuisance statute to abate air pollution nuisance from defendant's plant despite more recent and specific legislation empowering department of natural resources to regulate such matters. Nuisance statute was not expressly repealed and, particularly in view of the...

Detergent manufacturers' attempt to enjoin FTC hearings on proposed phosphate labeling rule must fail where plaintiffs make no showing that such hearings would result in substantial hardship. Agency not required to file environmental impact statement on proposed rule prior to hearings, so long as st...

Producers' agreement prior to drilling, to maintain a 2,500-foot distance between wells, did not constitute voluntary integration of gas wells in the Wyckoff Field to achieve the statutorily required purpose of efficient use, because voluntary integration can occur only after spacing of the wells ha...

The Utah State Road Commission is enjoined from removing new billboard erected by plaintiffs because the billboard—although exceeding the size limitations specified in the Commission's permit—is merely a continuation of a prior nonconforming use that has been changed only to the extent contempla...

The provisions of the Urban Mass Transportation Assistance Act of 1970 are designed to protect public parks, wildlife refuges, and historical and cultural assets from needless destruction and are not applicable to a federal grant project to improve the electrification system of the Long Island Railr...

Proposed Massachusetts act that would prohibit any SST plane not capable of limiting its noise level to 108 decibels or less from taking off and landing anywhere in the Commonwealth except in an emergency, would illegally intrude upon an area preempted by Congress. While 1968 amendments to the Feder...