A California appellate court reversed in part a lower court decision dismissing a consumer group's complaints against various hotels and retail establishments for secondhand smoke and tobacco…

A California appellate court held that California Government Code §17516c is unconstitutional to the extent it exempts regional water board orders from California's subvention requirement.…

A New Mexico appellate court upheld the state's definition of "surface waters." In 2005, the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission revised New Mexico's definition of…

A California appellate court held that a lower court erred in transferring environmental groups' California Environmental Quality Act claim to another venue. The groups filed suit challenging…

A California appellate court upheld the dismissal of a petition challenging a city's decision to adopt a resolution renewing a Central Valley Project water contract with the Bureau of…

The Federal Claims Court denied the U.S. government's motion to dismiss property owners' takings claims against it in connection with a U.S. Army Corps of Engineer's project along…

The court held that a lower court properly denied power companies' motions to compel their insurer to pay all past and future defense costs incurred in responding to a federal lawsuit under…

The U.S. Supreme Court held that two flow-control ordinances requiring delivery of local solid waste to a publicly owned processing facility do not discriminate against interstate commerce in…

A district court granted in part a motion to reconsider its previous ruling dismissing an industrial park owners' CERCLA and (RCRA claims against the prior owner. The current owner filed suit…

The Ninth Circuit vacated a lower court decision granting in part and denying in part cross-motions for summary judgment in a case concerning the validity of the federal government's policy…