Courts

The court denies a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' motion to change venue in an environmental group's suit against it for violating the Clean Water Act (CWA) §404 by authorizing a surface…

The court dismisses an individual's appeal of a district court order dismissing his motion to vacate two Resource Conservation and Recovery Act criminal convictions and adopting a magistrate…

The court denies a bankrupt environmental management company's motions to dismiss property owners' Declaratory Judgment Act (DJA) action for lack of venue and failure to state a claim.…

The court denies an electric utility and trade association coalition's motion to intervene in mediation leading to and subsequent enforcement of an amended consent decree between the U.S.…

The court reverses a district court's decision dismissing building owners' U.S. Commerce Clause claims against a waste authority for lack of standing. The building owners maintained that…

The court holds that it lacks subject matter jurisdiction over a coalition's claims that federal agencies violated a variety of statutes, including the National Environmental Policy Act and…

The Sixth Circuit affirms a district court judgment upholding the Interior Board of Land Appeals' (IBLA's) decision that a mining company violated federal Surface Mining Control and…

The court holds that owners of land in South Carolina adjacent to both land containing a historic plantation and an African American cemetery and land on which a road crossing is constructed have…

The court holds that the Emergency Low-Income Housing Preservation Act's (ELIHPA's) and the Low-Income Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act's (LIHPRHA's)…

The court affirms the dismissal of property owners' claim that a consulting firm negligently announced that land neighboring the owner's property was suitable as a potential landfill…