June 10, 2016
From the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling giving federal courts the authority to review Clean Water Act jurisdictional findings to the high court's extremely rare decision to block the Obama administration's signature climate change regulations, 2016 already has been a big year in environmental law. Here's Law360's rundown of the most important rulings from environmental cases in the last six months.
May 20, 2016
The Eighth Circuit on Friday reversed a district court's grant of class certification to homeowners suing General Mills Inc. for allowing carcinogenic vapors from a Superfund site to seep into their Minneapolis neighborhood, saying questions of liability and damages are too individualized to be grouped.
March 23, 2016
A class of plaintiffs who allege a former General Mills Inc. facility released carcinogenic vapors into a Minneapolis neighborhood have told the Eighth Circuit a new Supreme Court ruling backs the district court decision certifying their class, saying this week's Tyson Foods ruling shows the Eighth Circuit should affirm their class certification.
January 29, 2016
Public nuisance claims are being brought with increasing frequency by plaintiffs in environmental lawsuits who have had recent success convincing courts that their state nuisance claims are not preempted by federal statutes, experts say, making a few key cases required reading for environmental attorneys.
September 16, 2015
General Mills Inc. on Wednesday told the Eighth Circuit that the reasoning behind a panel's recent decision to reverse class certification in a pipeline spill pollution row applies to the company's own bid to decertify a class in an environmental nuisance lawsuit.
June 03, 2015
General Mills Inc. asked the Eighth Circuit to overturn a Minnesota federal judge's decision to certify a class of property owners who accuse the company of allowing carcinogenic vapors from a Superfund site to drift into a Minneapolis neighborhood.
May 07, 2015
From a novel effort to hold a banana grower accountable for environmental damage abroad to more traditional but still controversial claims over alleged contamination from a Superfund site at people's homes, experts say there are five interesting environmental class actions to keep an eye on.