The court upholds a district court decision that the U.S. Navy's environmental impact statement (EIS) for the construction of an aircraft landing field in North Carolina was deficient under…
The court held that a district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to set aside a default judgment against a manufacturing company in a case concerning environmental cleanup and…
The Seventh Circuit upheld the dismissal of a nonprofit's untimely appeal of certain U.S. Forest Service projects. The nonprofit relied on the Forest Service's statement as to the due…
The Ninth Circuit upheld a lower court discovery ruling ordering a railroad company to produce documents in an underlying action in which landowners allege that the railway intentionally dumped…
The court denied motions to dismiss a city's Comprehensive Environmental Compensation, Recovery, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Clean Water Act (CWA), and state-law claims against various dairy…
The Eighth Circuit denied an environmental group's request for attorneys fees in an action stemming from violations of federal environmental laws because the group planned on keeping the…
A district court granted in part and denied in part a company's motion in limine to exclude an environmental group's proffered expert testimony in a Comprehensive Environmental Response…
The Fifth Circuit reversed a district court's denial of a motion to compel attendance and produce documents and its quashing of a subpoena directed to a non-party witness in a class action…
The court upholds a trial court's decision to admit expert testimony on the issue of causation in a case involving the destruction of oyster beds that allegedly resulted from an oil spill off…
The court dismisses a railroad's state-law and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) claims against two petroleum companies that operated pipeline…