North Carolina's appellate court reversed and remanded a jury's award of $500,000 in compensatory and punitive damages to the owner of a well whose water was contaminated with gasoline…
A California appellate court reversed a lower court decision denying a petition for writ of mandate challenging a city's approval of a home improvement center construction project. A citizens…
The Eleventh Circuit upheld the dismissal of dairy farmers' False Claims Act (FCA) against a Georgia county for misrepresenting its compliance with state and local environmental laws in order…
A California appellate court upheld the water services portion of a county's environmental impact report (EIR) for a residential and commercial development project north of Los Angeles. In a…
A California appellate court held that provisions of the California Safe Drinking Water Act impose upon a county a mandatory duty under Cal. Gov. Code §815.6 to review and respond to…
A California appellate court reversed a lower court decision denying residents' petitions to compel a city to enforce mitigation measures imposed under the California Environmental Quality…
A Michigan appellate court upheld a lower court's imposition of over $2.5 million in penalties against the owners of a gas station for failing to comply with certain orders and statutory…
The court holds that a lower court improperly dismissed Native Americans' case against the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for leasing tribal land to a developer to construct a liquefied…
The court upholds a county's decision approving the construction of 20 wind turbines about 400 feet in height, a height that exceeds the maximum height permitted by the zoning ordinance, as…
The court upholds the denial of a church's motion for a preliminary restraining order to prevent the relocation of a cemetery in conjunction with plans to renovate Chicago's O'Hare…