The court enjoins New York City's environmental agency from implementing a September 18, 1998, memorandum allowing slopes that are greater than 15% but less than 20% to be modified to 15% or…
The court affirms in part and reverses in part a lower court judgment determining that an insurer of the San Diego Bay Port District had a duty to defend the district from a citizen suit alleging…
The court holds that a state court action brought by a Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) potentially responsible party (PRP) to obtain from state…
The court reverses and remands a trial court decision that water district residents did not have standing to challenge the district's settlement agreement with hog confinement facility…
The court holds that a bankruptcy court correctly allowed a Chapter 7 trustee to abandon real property of the bankruptcy estate over a state environmental agency's objection. The agency…
The court holds that neither an amended Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) consent decree between a waste handler and the United States nor a previous…
The court affirms a bankruptcy court decision holding that the toxic tort claims brought by neighborhood plaintiffs against a bankrupt manufacturing facility had accrued prior to the bankruptcy…
The court holds that the federal courts can hear a trailer park association's claim that a local rent control ordinance regulating trailer parks effected an unconstitutional taking under the…
The court holds that a railroad's motion to dismiss a power company's Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) cost recovery action against it for…
The court holds that the New Jersey Sewerage Authorities Law does not authorize a regional sewerage authority to charge a user already in the system an additional connection fee for increasing its…