Service Oil, Inc. v. U.S Environmental Protection Agency (MLW No. 60030/Case No. 08-2819 – 10 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Loken, C.J.) Where the EPA imposed a fine on the owner of a construction site that did not ...

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Kennedy Building Associates v. CBS Corporation (MLW No. 59546/Case No. 07-3622 – 14 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Gibson, J.) Where a property owner that discovered environmental contamination appealed a district court’s decision that the property’s prior owner ...

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U.S. v. Northshore Mining Company (MLW No. 59531/Case No. 08-1423 – 16 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Gruender, J.) Where a district court entered an order holding that portions of a 1975 injunction regulating air emissions from a ...

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U.S. v. Bailey (MLW No. 59364/Case No. 08-1908 – 21 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Wollman, J.) Where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ordered a defendant, who built a road in wetlands without obtaining a permit under ...

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Where environmental-group plaintiffs sued the Forest Service claiming construction of a snowmobile trail in Minnesota would violate the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act, summary judgment for the defendants is affirmed because the claims were time barred by the statute ...

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