The court declares that the Price-Anderson Act's limitation on liability from a nuclear incident violates plaintiffs' due process and equal protection rights by allowing property destruction without compensation and by irrationally placing the cost of nuclear accidents on only a few citizens. Plaint...

The Fourth Circuit affirms a lower court's dismissal of a suit to enjoin construction of a bridge across the Ohio and Guyandotte Rivers at Huntington, West Virginia. After discussing the appropriate standard of review, the court rules that the environmental impact statement prepared by defendant in ...

The court dismisses, for lack of standing to sue, plaintiff's suit alleging that a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) environmental impact statement (EIS) must be prepared for legislative proposals to regulate strip mining. Plaintiff owns property on which surface and underground mining occurs...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...