A court holds that a county did not effect a physical or regulatory taking when it imposed conditions on a landowner's permit to activate a well on its property. The conditional use permit…

The court removes the New York Superfund disposal tax—Environmental Conservation Law §27-0923(2)—from its statutory financing scheme for the cleanup of inactive hazardous waste disposal sites. The…

A court dismisses property owners' claims that the District of Columbia, through the use of eminent domain, instituted an unconstitutional taking of their property. An ongoing condemnation…

A court affirms a civil penalty assessed against a land developer for violating the North Carolina Sedimentation Pollution Control Act. The lower court properly rejected the developer's claim…

The court reverses the dismissal of a developer's suit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) in which it sought to compel the Corps to take action on its application to…

The court holds that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) did not violate the Privacy Act by disclosing an individual's personal information on its public website. The Corps posted…

The court dismisses a petition for review challenging a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule implementing critical use exemptions for methyl bromide, a pesticide with significant ozone-…

The court upholds the dismissal of an individual's claims for money paid by his predecessors in the early 1970s for the purchase of tribal land held in trust by the U.S. government that was…

A court reverses the dismissal of property owners' complaint challenging a city's creation of a fire suppression assessment district. The lower court determined that the owners failed to…

A court holds that under former California Food and Agricultural Code §12811.5, the state pesticides department may not actively or passively consider data submitted by an original…