Civil Procedure

The court affirms a trial court's exclusion of the testimony in an eminent domain case of a property owner's expert as to the value of the property if it was operated as a landfill. A…

The court affirms a district court decision denying a biomedical association's motion to intervene in an alternative research group's challenge of a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA…

The court upholds a district court decision denying environmental groups the right to intervene in a suit concerning the listing of the Atlantic salmon as an endangered species. In 1999, the…

The court affirms a district court decision upholding a jury verdict ordering the manufacturer of an organic cleaning solvent to pay an assembly line worker $2.2 million in damages for injuries…

The court reverses a district court decision and holds that environmental groups could intervene in a suit brought by a counties' association to have the presidential proclamation…

The court affirms a district court's dismissal for failure to join indispensable parties to a Native American tribe's claims challenging the U.S. Department of the Interior's (DOI…

The court affirms a district court decision excluding the testimony of individuals' two expert witnesses in a suit alleging that polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination from a natural…

The court holds that seafood processors who settled with an oil company in connection with the Exxon Valdez oil spill before the mandatory punitive damages class was certified are entitled to…

The court holds that although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) withdrawal of a final administrative order (FAO) against an oil company rendered moot the oil company…

The court refuses to preliminarily enjoin a lessee from using a soil vapor extraction (SVE) cleanup method during the remediation of its leased property or to require the lessee to remediate all…