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Wambat Realty Corp. v. State

The New York Court of Appeals affirms a trial court's judgment declaring the Adirondack Park Agency Act valid and rejecting a developer's claim that the Act violates the home rule protection afforded local governments by Article IX of the New York Constitution. Although the Act encroaches upon the z...

Benenson v. United States

The Court of Claims holds that governmental action to preserve the historic Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., has resulted in a taking without just compensation. Plaintiffs hold title to the Willard, having purchased it in 1961. A government advisory committee in 1964 called for demolition of the W...

Environmental Action Found. v. Brown

The court denies defendants' motion to dismiss for lack of standing to sue and laches in this National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) challenge to the Defense Department's B-1 bomber program. Plaintiffs are seven organizations professing an interest in the environmental consequences of the B-1 prog...

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. v. Callaway

The court denies defendants' motion to dismiss this suit for a declaratory judgment that the Corps of Engineers' final environmental impact statement (EIS) for a revised proposal for legislative authorization of reconstruction of Lock and Dam 26 on the upper Mississippi River is inadequate. The adeq...

California & Hawaiian Sugar Co. v. EPA

The court upholds the validity of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) final effluent limitations guidelines for crystalline cane sugar refineries after rejecting petitioners' claims that various agency determinations were arbitrary and capricious in light of all the evidence in the record....

Des Plaines, City of v. Metropolitan Sanitary Dist.

The court affirms a lower court's grant of summary judgment for defendants in a suit challenging the adequacy of two final environmental impact statements prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in conjuncton with federal funding for construction of a proposed sewage treatment plant an...

Hawthorn Envtl. Preservation Ass'n v. Coleman

The Fifth Circuit affirms the lower court decision, 7 ELR 20060, preliminarily enjoining the state of Georgia from proceeding with construction of a highway without preparing a National Environmental Policy Act environmental impact statement. The trial judge did not misapply the law or abuse his dis...

Conservation Law Found. of R.I. v. General Servs. Admin.

The court refuses to grant a preliminary injunction against issuing licenses to oil-related companies for use of surplus government property pending completion of a comprehensive environmental impact statement (EIS). Due to a phasing out of naval activities in Rhode Island, certain government proper...

British Airways Bd. v. Port Auth. of N.Y. & N.J.

The court grants plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment and enjoins the New York Port Authority from prohibiting flights of the supersonic transport Concorde aircraft into John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). Plaintiffs are foreign air carriers holding Civil Aeronautics Board permits and Fe...

Fund for Animals v. Kreps

The court stays the lower court's order halting tuna purse-seining and allows tuna fishermen to take porpoise pursuant to their 1976 quotas and permits until April 30, 1977, or until 1977 permits are issued. All porpoise taken during this interim period are to be counted as part of the total catch a...