Governance

The court dismisses as moot a chemical association's challenge to California's pesticide registration laws. The association claimed that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and…

The court grants in part and denies in part numerous petitions for review of a series of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) orders relating to refunds stemming from the California energy…

A California appellate court affirms, with modifications, a lower court's reversal of the state forestry agency's timber harvest plan for a 13-acre parcel of land in Sonoma County.…

The court upholds the dismissal of military veterans' claims that they were denied meaningful access to administrative proceedings before the Department of Veterans Affairs to pursue…

The court affirms the dismissal of animal defense organizations' action challenging the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM’s) strategy to achieve an appropriate management level…

The court vacates and remands a six-level sentencing enhancement imposed against the operator of a foreign vessel for failing to keep an accurate "oil record book" in violation of &…

The court upholds a lower court decision invalidating a U.S. Forest Service regulation governing the review of decisions implementing forest plans, but remands the court's judgment with…

The court vacates a lower court decision finding that the United States is not liable to a mining company for the alleged permanent physical taking of its leasehold interest in a 158-acre tract of…

The court denies Nevada's petition for review of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) final environmental impact statement (EIS) for a nuclear waste underground repository and a…

The court partially reverses the dismissal of an Alien Tort Claims Act action brought by residents of Papua New Guinea against a mining corporation claiming numerous violations of international…