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By WYATT OLSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: May 24, 2021 A unanimous Supreme Court decision Monday allows Guam to pursue its lawsuit seeking to force the Navy to contribute toward the roughly $160 million needed to clean up the toxic Ordot Dump on the island territory. The decision, written by Justice Clarence Thomas, overturned an appellate ruling that Guam was barred from suing because of a statutory time limit. The case goes back to a lower court where the island will continue litigating...

Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following two decisions: Guam v. United States, No. 20-382: The Territory of Guam and the United States have been involved in a long-running dispute over clean-up-related costs regarding the Ordot Dump, which was first constructed and used by the Navy, and later ceded to Guam which used the dump as a public landfill. The Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) later brought suit against Guam related to the dump under the Clean Water A...

The United States Supreme Court has issued two new opinions. In  United States v. Palomar-Santiago the court held that each of 8 U. S. C. §1326(d)’s statutory requirements for bringing a collateral attack on a prior deportation order is mandatory. In  Guam v. United States the court held that a settlement of environmental liabilities must resolve a specific liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to give rise to a contribution act...

Sonia Sotomayor, in which the full court sided with the government and against the immigrant. The unanimous court ruled against the Mexican national Refugio Palomar-Santiago, who was charged with criminal re-entry into the United States. Palomar-Santiago became a permanent U.S. resident in 1990, was deported in 1998, and was found living again in the U.S. in 2017. As a result of being found unlawfully on American soil, Palomar-Santiago was prosecuted for criminal re-entry. The challenge before...

Supreme Court Justices Again Unanimous Twice in the Same Day Elura Nanos © Provided by Law & Crime The 9 Supreme Court justices pose for a group picture in 2021 Seated from left: Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, standing from left: Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and Associate Jus...

Kinross reports 2021 first-quarter results Company on track to meet annual guidance Three largest producing mines Paracatu, Kupol and Tasiast deliver lowest costs in portfolio TORONTO, May 11, 2021 — Kinross Gold Corporation today announced its results for the first-quarter ended March 31, 2021. 2021 first-quarter highlights: The Company is on track to meet 2021 annual guidance . Production 1 of 558,777 attributable gold equivalent ounces . Production cost … Company on track to meet annual ...

On January 14, 2021, on the eve of President Biden's inauguration, EPA issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking, seeking comment on whether PFOA and PFOS

Titanic, the El Faro in Hurricane Joaquin, and the tragic fire aboard The Conception off of the Santa Barbara coast—what do these infamous maritime disasters have in common? All caused unprecedented losses. All could have been prevented.  All involved the invocation of a maritime law known as the Limitation of Liability Act. Congress passed the Limitation of Liability Act (46 U.S. Code Chapter 305) in 1851 to promote and protect the maritime shipping industry. At the time, vessels and the ...

PFAS Action Act of 2021 Would Amend Major Environmental Statutes to Regulate PFAS Senate Committee Approved Bill that Would Require Guidance on Reducing Firefighter Exposure to PFAS Regulatory Developments EPA Makes Changes to New Chemicals Program Likely to Further Complicate, Slow Reviews EPA Takes Steps to Set PFAS Agenda OSHA Proposed First Updates to Hazard Communication Standard Since 2012 EPA Said Interim Rule to Amend TSCA Mercury Reporting Requirements Was Forthcoming Environmental Gro...

Following the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Atlantic Richfield Company v. Christian, commentators warned the decision would allow a new category of state law actions challenging EPA-approved clean-ups. One year later, Christian does not seem to have opened the flood gates to new litigation, but it may serve to narrow federal jurisdiction over environmental clean-ups.    In Christian, 98 Montana landowners, who were within the boundaries of a Comprehensive Environmental Respon...