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Benefits: 0.09836065573770492, Costs: 0.01639344262295082 | THOMAS, Circuit Judge.
This case involves a dispute over a Bureau of Reclamation project to build a concrete-lined canal to replace an unlined portion of the All-American Canal. The district court denied declaratory and in-junctive relief. A motions panel of our Court granted a temporary injunction halting work on the ... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1111111111111111, Costs: 0.03174603174603174 | J. BLAINE ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:
The plaintiffs, numerous environmental organizations and one private citizen, appeal from the district court’s judgment dissolving the injunction prohibiting acquisition of right-of-way for the proposed highway expansion by State and Federal defendants.
This appeal involves yet anothe... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.05339805825242718, Costs: 0.05825242718446602 | TONE, Circuit Judge.
This is a review of effluent limitations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., 86 Stat. 816 et seq. (hereinafter “the Act”). Petitioner is the American Meat Institute (“AMI”... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.3823529411764706, Costs: 0.07352941176470588 | MOORE, District Judge:
This case involves the addition of approximately 112,400 acres of land (“Addition Lands”) to the Big Cypress National Preserve in the State of Florida (“Original Preserve”). The Original Preserve was established by the Big Cypress National Preserve Act, 16 U.S.C. § 698f(a), and consists of over 5... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1111111111111111, Costs: 0.2333333333333333 | OPINION OF THE COURT
Before VAN DUSEN, ADAMS and WEIS, Circuit Judges.
VAN DUSEN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal challenges a December 31, 1974, order vacating approvals previously given for a project for the construction of a flood control dam (Pa-466), since the project violates the National Environmental Policy Act of 1... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1578947368421053, Costs: 0.02631578947368421 | OPINION
SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:
The Waterford Citizens’ Association (Citizens’ Association), in an action for declaratory judgment, claimed that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is obliged to reinstitute procedures mandated by section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA or the Act) before a con... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.2666666666666667, Costs: 0.04 | ORDER
Pursuant to the opinion issued concomitantly with this order, we hereby enjoin any further activities on the land such as would be undertaken pursuant to the Huckleberry Mountain Exchange Agreement as executed by the United States and the Weyerhaeuser Company on March 28, 1997, until such time as the Forest Servi... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.09615384615384616, Costs: 0.01923076923076923 | SETH, Circuit Judge.
These are appeals from a judgment enjoining the defendants, Denver Urban Renewal Authority (DURA), and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), from proceeding with the sale of the Daniels and Fisher Tower in Denver, Colorado, to a local architectural firm, Luff/McOG, wh... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.03448275862068965, Costs: 0 | KATZMANN, Circuit Judge.
The New York City Empowerment Zone was created pursuant to a Congressional act and was awarded $100 million in federal block grants to foster the revitalization of economically distressed areas. This case raises an issue of first impression: whether the Zone’s subsequent use of those federal fu... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.2702702702702703, Costs: 0 | SEYMOUR, Chief Judge.
The Pueblo of Sandia and various environmental groups brought suit for declaratory and injunctive relief against the United States and a National Forest Service supervisor, alleging that the Forest Service failed to comply with the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), 16 U.S.C. §§ 470 et seq... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.08, Costs: 0.03 | OPINION
SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:
I. INTRODUCTION
This litigation represents a challenge to the construction of a 20-mile, high-speed rail system (the “Project”) from the western portion of Oahu through the downtown area of Honolulu, Hawaii. Honolulu has been unsuccessfully struggling to cope with traffic congestion si... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.06521739130434782, Costs: 0.07246376811594203 | SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The area around the venerable towns of Lexington and Concord is commonly regarded as the birthplace of the American Revolution. The communities in that area, now fashionable Boston suburbs, are deservedly proud of both their storied history and their aesthetic advantages. When an affiliated arm of... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1, Costs: 0.11 | WINTER, Circuit Judge:
This appeal poses the question of whether a church may be prevented by New York City’s Landmarks Law, now codified at New York City Administrative Code Sections 25-301 to 25-321 (1986), from replacing a church-owned building with an office tower. The question implicates both First and Fifth Amend... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.06666666666666667, Costs: 0 | RYAN, Circuit Judge.
The Sierra Club and other plaintiffs brought suit against federal, state, and municipal officials in their official capacities under numerous federal statutes, seeking to prevent the construction of an urban corridor development project known as the Buckeye Basin Greenbelt Project, also known simpl... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1875, Costs: 0.075 | BLOCK, District Judge
Judges Berzon and Murguia have voted to deny the petitions for rehearing en banc, and Judge Block so recommends. The full court has been advised of the petitions and no judge has requested a vote on whether to rehear the matter en banc. Fed. R. App. P. 35. Accordingly, the petitions for rehearing ... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.05303030303030303, Costs: 0 | TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:
The Morongo Band of Mission Indians (“Morongo Band” or “Tribe”) petitions for review of a Record of Decision (“ROD”) of the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”), implementing the Los Angeles International Airport (“LAX”) East Arrival Enhancement Project (“AEP”). The Morongo Band raises claims... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1854304635761589, Costs: 0.04304635761589404 | HAYS, Circuit Judge:
By Opinion No. 584, dated August 19, 1970, the Federal Power Commission granted a license to Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., to construct, operate, and maintain a pumped storage project along the western shore of the Hudson River at Cornwall, New York. Eight parties have filed petiti... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.07142857142857142, Costs: 0 | GEWIN, Circuit Judge:
Treasure Salvors, Inc., and Armada Research Corp., Florida corporations, sued for possession of and confirmation of title to an unidentified wrecked and abandoned vessel thought to be the Nuestra Señora de Ato-cha. The Atocha sank in the sea off the Marquesas Keys in 1622 while en route to Spain. ... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1413043478260869, Costs: 0.108695652173913 | HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant Wyoming Sawmills Incorporated brings this appeal from the district court’s order dismissing plaintiffs claim of violation of the Constitution’s Establishment Clause and holding against plaintiff on the merits of its claims of violation of the National Forest Management Act. ... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.01666666666666667, Costs: 0.08333333333333333 | OPINION
THOMAS, Chief Judge:
This case presents the question whether the federal Surface Transportation Board (“the Board”) has exclusive jurisdiction over railroad repair work done at the direction of a federally regulated rail carrier but performed by a contractor rather than the carrier itself. We conclude that it d... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.04098360655737705, Costs: 0.04918032786885246 | LYNCH, Chief Judge.
The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (“CRMC”) challenges a decision by the federal district court, which has rejected two regulatory barriers CRMC imposed to plans to build a Liquified Natural Gas (“LNG”) terminal in the City of Fall River with a berth in Massachusetts coastal water... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.2291666666666667, Costs: 0.04166666666666666 | DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
This case involves the efforts of a consortium of Illinois municipalities to find a place to dump their trash. The Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (“SWANCC”) thought that it had found such a spot in a 533-acre parcel of land straddling Cook and Kane Counties, Illinois. Before it... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.2253521126760563, Costs: 0.0352112676056338 | OPINION OF THE COURT
SCIRICA, Circuit Judge.
At issue is whether the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can deepen the main channel of the Delaware River by five feet, enabling river ports to be economically competitive and at the same time, comply with statutes that protect the environment. The roots of the project trace ba... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.04054054054054054, Costs: 0.05405405405405406 | LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Following the panel’s decision in this case, see United States v. Johnson, 437 F.3d 157 (1st Cir.2006), appellants moved for rehearing en banc, noting the Supreme Court’s grant of certiorari in United States v. Rapanos, 376 F.3d 629 (6th Cir.2004). We held their petition in abeyance pending a deci... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.025, Costs: 0.1625 | SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge.
Land-use restrictions often set neighbor against neighbor, and can be a source of considerable turmoil in otherwise tranquil communities. So it is here: Barbara Cor-di-Allen and her husband John Allen (the Allens) are landowners in the Cape Cod town of Truro, Massachusetts (the Town). They ... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1136363636363636, Costs: 0 | FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
Clifton Craft, Jack Ferguson, and William Wilson (“appellants”) appeal the district court’s order affirming the assessment of civil penalties by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (“NOAA”) for violations of the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act. NOAA assessed the... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0, Costs: 0.125 | OPINION
PER CURIAM:
In this fourth appeal to this court involving the challenged Storm King Project, a hydroelectric facility slated to be built on the west bank of the Hudson River, defendant Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (“Con Ed”) appeals from a portion of a final judgment entered in the United State... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.2272727272727273, Costs: 0.1818181818181818 | WIDENER, Circuit Judge:
These actions arise because of EPA amending its regulations to comply with our mandate in Appalachian Power Co. v. Train, 545 F.2d 1351 (4th Cir. 1976). In Appalachian Power, approximately seventy power companies sought review of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulations promulgate... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.08333333333333333, Costs: 0.2 | OPINION OF THE COURT
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
This case involves an important question regarding the interpretation of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA). We must determine whether the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may issue a permit which would allow dischargers to comply with effluent limitations at... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0, Costs: 0 | PER CURIAM:
Valley Camp Coal Company appeals from a judgment of the district court imposing a fine upon a finding that the defendant, in violation of 33 U.S.C. § 407, did unlawfully “throw, discharge, or deposit, or cause, suffer, or procure to be thrown, discharged, or deposited . . from the shore,” refuse matter, to-... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.04276315789473684, Costs: 0.003289473684210526 | TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:
Appellants Lewis Stephen Work, et al. (the citizens or Work) appeal from two orders entered December 3, 1987 and March 24, 1989 in the Western District of Arkansas, Oren Harris, Senior District Judge. 720 F.Supp. 132. The first denied intervention in a government environmental enforcement action... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.05172413793103448, Costs: 0.04310344827586207 | McKAY, Circuit Judge.
The City of Albuquerque [Albuquerque] filed a complaint challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s [EPA] approval of the Pueblo of Isleta’s [Isleta Pueblo] water quality standards on numerous grounds. After denying Albuquerque a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction,... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1230769230769231, Costs: 0.04615384615384616 | SEYMOUR, Chief Judge.
Appellants Peter Maier, the Intermountain Water Alliance, the Atlantic States Legal Foundation, the Utah Wilderness Association, and Kay Henry petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to initiate rulemaking under the Clean Water Act (CWA), 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251-1387. Mr. Maier contended th... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1195652173913044, Costs: 0.0108695652173913 | WIDENER, Circuit Judge:
This case comes to us on appeal from summary judgment granted in favor of the defendant, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While we agree with much of the district court’s opinion, we are of opinion that judicial review of the merits of EPA’s objections is premature, so we vac... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.0576923076923077, Costs: 0.01923076923076923 | PER CURIAM:
William Fairhurst appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Jeff Hagener, director of the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (“Department”). We hold that a pesticide applied to a river pursuant to an intentional scheme aimed at eliminating pestilent fish species is not a... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1515151515151515, Costs: 0 | OPINION
GRABER, Circuit Judge:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, or Clean Water Act (“the Act”), 33 U.S.C. § 1365(a)(1), allows a citizen to sue to enforce the Act’s prohibition against discharging water pollutants without a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) permit. In this citizen suit, ... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.06, Costs: 0 | HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:
We took this ease in banc to determine whether Florida Statute 320.02(9) violates the Supremacy Clause and the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. Finding the statute unconstitutional, we affirm in part and reverse in part.
FACTS
On April 30, 1985, Myra Holladay Sims imported fro... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.02597402597402598, Costs: 0.02597402597402598 | OPINION OF THE COURT
ALITO, Circuit Judge:
The Southwestern Pennsylvania Growth Alliance (“SWPGA”) has petitioned for review of a final rule of the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), 61 Fed.Reg. 19,-193 (May 1, 1996). In this rule, the EPA denied the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s request that the EPA redesignate... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.02659574468085106, Costs: 0.02127659574468085 | CARNES, Circuit Judge:
In this case the Sierra Club and the Alabama Environmental Council, two environmental groups, sued the Tennessee Valley Authority under the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401 et seq., claiming that TVA’s plant in Colbert County, Alabama violated the 20% opacity limitation, Ala. Admin. Code r. 335-3... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.09615384615384616, Costs: 0 | RAWLINSON, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner, Montana Environmental Information Center (Information Center), challenges an action of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (Agency) approving a 1994 revision to Montana's State Implementation Plan (Implementation Plan). Information Center asserts that the Agency's app... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1, Costs: 0.03333333333333333 | BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:
The present case requires the Court to determine whether Sandy Creek’s current and ongoing construction of a coal-fired power plant, for which no MACT determination has ever been made, violates the Clean Air Act § 112(g). Because we conclude that § 112(g)(2)(B) prohibits the act of constructio... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1176470588235294, Costs: 0.02941176470588235 | EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
Two sections of the Clean Air Act provide that neither national nor state officials may make any changes that cause air quality to deteriorate in parts of the country that have yet to attain the required standard. See sections 110(i) and 193, codified at 42 U.S.C. §§ 7410(i), 7515. See also En... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.03125, Costs: 0 | PAEZ, Circuit Judge:
Bill MacClarence petitions this court for review of an order by the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator (the “Administrator”) denying his request that the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) object to the issuance of a Clean Air Act Title V permit for pollutant-emitting activities at ... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.05405405405405406, Costs: 0.05405405405405406 | DAUGHTREY, J., delivered the opinion in which BATCHELDER, J., joined in the result. BATCHELDER, J. (pp. 741-45), delivered a separate opinion concurring in the judgment. ROGERS, J. (pp. 745-56), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
MARTHA CRAIG DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judge.
This case is before us for a second t... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.04069767441860465, Costs: 0.01744186046511628 | LYNCH, Chief Judge.
This appeal by Southern Union, a natural gas company convicted by a jury of storing hazardous waste without a permit, raises two issues of initial impression. First, the case tests whether federal criminal enforcement may be used under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), 42 U.S.C. § 6... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0, Costs: 0.1071428571428571 | Affirmed by published opinion. Judge WHITNEY wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILKINSON and Judge SHEDD joined.
OPINION
WHITNEY, District Judge:
Van der Linde Housing, Inc. (“Van der Linde”) appeals the dismissal of its complaint against the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority (“the Authority”), alleging, inter alia, that i... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.02777777777777778, Costs: 0 | JON 0. NEWMAN, Chief Judge:
This case is before the Court upon the petition of Ciba-Geigy Corporation and Hercules Incorporated (collectively “Ciba”), the current and past operators of a hazardous waste site in Glen Falls, New York, for review of a Memorandum of Agreement between the Environmental Protection Agency and... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1224489795918367, Costs: 0 | BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.
This case examines the relationship between the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (“RCRA”), Pub.L. No. 94-580, 90 Stat. 2795, as amended by the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 (“HSWA”), Pub.L. No. 98-616, 98 Stat. 3221 (codified as amended at 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901-6981 (Wes... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.06, Costs: 0.055 | OPINION OF THE COURT
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
One of the assumptions upon which our society is premised is that technological advancement will be encouraged and material comfort will be increased by rewarding innovation with profit. Long ago, Sir Edward Coke noted that “everyone thirsteth after gaine,” and, by and large, ... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.21875, Costs: 0.03125 | VAN OOSTERHOUT, Senior Circuit Judge.
Before us are petitions filed by Southern National Manufacturing Company, Inc., (Southern) and Neodane Company, Inc., (Neodane) to review the final order of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) entered November 3, 1971, modified November 16, 1971, canceling petitioners’ regist... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.0625, Costs: 0.3125 | POSNER, Chief Judge.
Harley-Davidson, the plaintiff in this CERCLA suit (the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601 et seq., commonly known as the Superfund statute), owns a manufacturing plant in York, Pennsylvania. Its predecessor had bought the plant from a predecesso... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.03846153846153846, Costs: 0.07692307692307693 | TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
This case concerns the oft-litigated pollution exclusion clause commonly found in general liability insurance policies. Insurance coverage under this clause, or the lack thereof, has engendered bitter and frequent disputes between insurance companies and policyholders facing some form of envir... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1818181818181818, Costs: 0.1363636363636364 | SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:
This is a case arising out of the multimillion gallon crude oil spill which occurred when the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound in 1989. The plaintiffs in this case seek to represent a class of those who purchased gasoline in California during a specified period following the sp... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.06521739130434782, Costs: 0 | MANION, Circuit Judge.
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (“CERCLA”), 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq., allows private parties to recover the costs they incur in cleaning up hazardous wastes. NutraSweet and Monsanto (collectively “NutraSweet”) sued X-L Engineering and its president... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.05102040816326531, Costs: 0.1020408163265306 | BERZON, Circuit Judge:
The issue before us presents a question of statutory interpretation: Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERC-LA), when does the limitations period for suing to collect remedial action costs from a party responsible for hazardous substances begin? One w... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1517857142857143, Costs: 0 | O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge.
“Bitter tears were shed over the slaugh-
ter
of the oyster, but as usual,
crying didn’t help.”
In this case, involving the destruction of oyster beds which allegedly occurred as a result of an oil spill on the Oregon coast, we must determine the admissibility of expert testimony on the issue... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.08333333333333333, Costs: 0.08333333333333333 | CANBY, Circuit Judge:
Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. appeals from a $1,702,553.51 damage award to the United States pursuant to the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (“OPA”), 33 U.S.C. §§ 2701-2761. The OPA provides that a party responsible for a vessel that discharges or threatens to discharge oil into navigable waters is liable... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.09375, Costs: 0.0625 | HARTZ, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Ralph Rogerson, a licensed pest-control applicator in Kansas, challenges a regulation of the Kansas Department of Agriculture, Kan. Admin. Regs. § 4-13-26 (2003), on the ground that it requires excessive pesticide treatment in preconstruction applications. He filed suit for declaratory a... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.05454545454545454, Costs: 0 | KING, Circuit Judge:
This appeal arises from the multi-dis-trict litigation spawned from the disaster on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and the resulting massive oil spill that occurred at the Macondo well site in the Gulf of Mexico. Plaintiff Center for Biological Diversity appeals from the district court’s dismis... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.2261904761904762, Costs: 0 | JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
The chief issue before us is whether the Secretary of the Interior is authorized by the Endangered Species Act of 1973, 16 U.S.C. §§ 1531-1543 (1982), to issue regulations permitting the sport trapping of the Eastern Timber Wolf. Also in question are the legality of certain additional reg... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0, Costs: 0 | PER CURIAM.
In this appeal appellant, a manufacturer of boots, asks us to reverse the district court’s judgment that Cal.Penal Code § 653 o (West Supp.1981) is not preempted by current federal statutes or regulations. Appellant seeks this ruling on appeal because it wishes to engage in trade within the State of Califor... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.07692307692307693, Costs: 0 | BARRETT, Circuit Judge.
Robert Hubert Conners (Conners) appeals from a judgment of conviction that he unlawfully hunted, killed and attempted to kill migratory birds in violation of 16 U.S.C. § 703.
On May 20, 1977, the Colorado Retriever Club was conducting field trials at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver, Color... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1847826086956522, Costs: 0 | OPINION
FISHER, Circuit Judge:
In March 2008, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) authorized the states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho to kill up to 85 California sea lions annually at Bonneville Dam. NMFS made the decision under section 120 of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), which allows “the intent... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.25, Costs: 0 | TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
The issue to be decided by this appeal is whether the hunting of deer on a Massachusetts reservation significantly affects bald eagles so as to constitute a prohibited “taking” of that endangered species as defined by the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”). 16 U.S.C. §§ 1532(19) & 1538(a)(1)(B). H... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.3064516129032258, Costs: 0.01612903225806452 | ROBERT P. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:
In Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission, 354 F.2d 608 (2 Cir. 1965), cert. denied, 384 U.S. 941, 86 S.Ct. 1462, 16 L.Ed.2d 540 (1966), hereinafter cited as Scenic Hudson I, this court vacated the Federal Power Commission’s grant of a license to Consolidate... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.0875, Costs: 0.125 | BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.
The La Sal Mountain Range, located in southeastern Utah on the Colorado Plateau, encompasses the vast acreage of the Manti-La Sal National Forest. The highest elevations of the national forest support one of the rare alpine communities in the region. At these elevations, sensitive tundra vegetat... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1604938271604938, Costs: 0.01234567901234568 | HOLMES, Circuit Judge.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“the Service”) conveyed to a consortium of local governments a strip of land (“the corridor”) for the construction of a parkway. Its decision was challenged on various environmental grounds by several parties, including WildEarth Guardians, Rocky Mountain Wild,... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.2627118644067797, Costs: 0.1101694915254237 | OPINION
PARKER, Senior Circuit Judge:
The Santa Ana sucker (Catostomus san-taanae) is a small freshwater fish native to several California rivers and streams, including the Santa Ana River. In 2000, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”), after being sued by conservation groups, designated the sucker as a ... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.2083333333333333, Costs: 0.04166666666666666 | PER CURIAM:
The Warm Springs Dam Task Force (“the Task Force”) seeks an injunction pending appeal barring further work on the proposed Warm Springs Dam in Sonoma County, California, on the ground that the Environmental Impact Statement (“EIS”) prepared for the dam project by the Army Corps of Engineers fails to comply ... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1428571428571428, Costs: 0.02380952380952381 | HILL, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico for dismissing appellants’ action against the United States government. Appellants allege the government failed to follow the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. § 4321 et seq., ... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1041666666666667, Costs: 0.04166666666666666 | AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:
This much litigated and important environmental case has been in the courts for more than six years and is now before us for the second time. The complaint seeks to enjoin the construction of an expressway which would pass through parklands in the City of San Antonio, Texas. Plaintiffs are nam... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0, Costs: 0.08333333333333333 | TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from a dismissal of an action, seeking to enjoin Secretary of Transportation Yolpe, Secretary of the State of Florida Department of Transportation, Edward A. Mueller and Federal Highway Administrator, Francis C. Turner, from proceeding with their plans to continue construction o... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1875, Costs: 0.07291666666666667 | MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:
This case, which presents serious questions as to the interpretation of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 U.S.C. §§ 4331 et seq. (“NEPA”), the language of which has been characterized as “opaque” and “woefully ambiguous,” is here on appeal for the second time. Following the dis... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.07142857142857142, Costs: 0 | PER CURIAM:
Since the issuance of the partial preliminary injunction pending appeal the United States Attorney has filed a memorandum in this court stating the Government’s position to be that the Sharon Lane project in Charlotte is entirely a “State project, and is not to be approved or rejected by the Secretary of Tr... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1818181818181818, Costs: 0 | LUCERO, Circuit Judge.
Associations Working For Aurora’s Residential Environment (“AWARE”), a nonprofit corporation comprised of individuals and businesses who reside in or around the Parker Road/I-225 interchange in Aurora, Colorado, appeals an order refusing to enjoin defendants from beginning construction at that in... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.07364341085271318, Costs: 0.003875968992248062 | RANDALL, Circuit Judge:
Eleven years ago, a home developer applied for a federal permit to dredge canals in the navigable waters around Galveston Island, Texas. From the beginning, environmental groups and neighboring landowners have fought against the development. They sought first to persuade, and then to compel, the... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1079136690647482, Costs: 0.0539568345323741 | ELY, Circuit Judge:
We are once again faced with environmental challenges to the proposed construction by the State of Hawaii of the remaining portion of Interstate Route H-3. In this skirmish, the appellants challenge on numerous grounds the appellees’ approval of H-3, alleging violations of the National Environmental... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.08823529411764706, Costs: 0.01838235294117647 | LOGAN, Circuit Judge.
I
The Burr Trail winds for sixty-six miles through federally owned land in the rugged, dramatic terrain of southern Utah’s Garfield County. Connecting the town of Boulder with Lake Powell’s Bullfrog Basin Marina, the road at various points traverses across or next to unreserved federal lands, two ... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.48, Costs: 0.08 | MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
Gemma Lockhart appeals from an order of the district court granting summary judgment to the government in her action to enjoin the exchange of a parcel of federal land. On appeal, Lockhart argues that the Forest Service's decision to go ahead with the exchange without preparing an environmental i... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.3658536585365854, Costs: 0.02439024390243903 | ALTIMARI, Circuit Judge:
The Friends of the Ompompanoosuc, an environmental group, and the State of Vermont (collectively “Vermont” or “petitioners”) seek review pursuant to 16 U.S.C. § 825l (1988) of a decision and order of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or “Commission”), which denied their request f... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.01442307692307692, Costs: 0.02403846153846154 | OPINION
WHYTE, District Judge:
Appellants Japanese Village, LLC and Today’s IV, Inc. dba Westin Bonaventure Hotel (“Bonaventure”) appeal from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Appellees on Appellants’ claims under the National Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. § 4321 (“NEPA”). Appellants argu... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.2714285714285714, Costs: 0 | Affirmed by published opinion. Judge DUNCAN wrote the opinion, in which Judge WYNN and Judge HARRIS joined.
DUNCAN, Circuit Judge:
Raven Crest Contracting, LLC (“Raven Crest”) operates a surface coal mine near Racine, West Virginia, known as the Boone North No. 5 Surface Mine (“the Boone North mine”). This action chall... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.2272727272727273, Costs: 0 | Easterbrook, Circuit Judge.
Wisconsin proposes to renovate a 7.5-mile stretch of Highway 164 (formerly known as Highway J), a two-lane road in southern Washington County. It was built in the 1960s with 5 to 6.5 inches of asphalt, a pavement expected to last 22 years, and resurfaced in 2000 with another 2.5 to 3.5 inche... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.09090909090909091, Costs: 0.04545454545454546 | SAM D. JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:
The City of Baton Rouge and the Parish of East Baton Rouge (Baton Rouge) have petitioned this Court to review an order issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The order required Baton Rouge to comply with a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit issued... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0, Costs: 0 | PER CURIAM:
California appeals a district court judgment rejecting its challenges to certain aspects of the preparation, by the Department of the Interior (Interior), of a programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 4321 et... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.06666666666666667, Costs: 0 | JOHN P. MOORE, Circuit Judge.
The sole question presented by this appeal is whether a compliance order issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Water Act (CWA) is subject to judicial review. Following the lead of our sister circuits which have already considered this issue, we conclude the CW... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.09482758620689655, Costs: 0.04310344827586207 | Affirmed by published opinion. Judge MURNAGHAN wrote the opinion, in which Judge MOTZ and Senior Judge YOUNG joined.
OPINION
MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:
The appeal before the court concerns South Carolina’s attempt to limit the amount of hazardous waste generated out-of-state and buried within its borders by promulgating... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1666666666666667, Costs: 0 | POSNER, Chief Judge.
This appeal requires us to consider the scope and application of the doctrine of exhaustion of administrative remedies. We simplify the facts slightly. On January 17, 1990, the supervisor of the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois authorized a sale of timber. Under the regulations of the D... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.03571428571428571, Costs: 0.01785714285714286 | OPINION
SMITH, Chief Judge.
Appellants, Crystal Spring Ecosystem, Highland Township Municipal Authority, and Citizens Advocating a Clean Healthy Environment, Inc.—ail represented by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (“CELDF”)—sought to intervene on the side of Defendant-Appellee Township of Highland (the “... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.130952380952381, Costs: 0.02380952380952381 | SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.
These cases concern approximately forty-three acres of land which defendant Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation owns and operates within the limits of the City of West Chicago, Illinois. The site consists of eight acres containing twenty-one factory and other buildings, twenty-seven acres used for ... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.04761904761904762, Costs: 0 | EDWARD S. SMITH, Senior Circuit Judge.
The North Buckhead Civic Association, et al., appeal the June 13, 1989, Order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia denying their motions to enjoin construction of the Georgia 400 Extension, a proposed multi-lane highway with a median designed to... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.02564102564102564, Costs: 0.01282051282051282 | CANBY, Circuit Judge:
Kilroy appeals from a summary judgment in favor of the state and federal defendants. Kilroy had challenged the adequacy of the Los Angeles/Orange County Metropolitan Area Environmental Impact Statement (LA/OMA EIS).
FACTS
This ease is part of a series of lawsuits brought by Pacific Legal Foundatio... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0, Costs: 0.05 | PER CURIAM:
The Movement Against Destruction (MAD) along with other community associations and individuals prayed an injunction and declaratory judgment from the District Court in October 1972, to bar further construction of the “3-A System”, or segments thereof, of the Federal Aid Interstate System in Baltimore, Maryl... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.1666666666666667, Costs: 0.02777777777777778 | PER CURIAM.
Arthur J. Rocque, Jr., the Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, appeals from a decision of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Warren W. Egin-ton, Senior District Judge, dated July 1, 1998. Judge Eginton’s order granted reconsideration of, but... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.02272727272727273, Costs: 0.02272727272727273 | Nos. 08-2370 and 09-1928 dismissed; No. 09-2113 affirmed by published opinion. Judge WYNN wrote the opinion, in which Judge GREGORY and Judge DAVIS concurred.
OPINION
WYNN, Circuit Judge:
In this Clean Air Act case, Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (“Duke Energy”) challenges an attorneys’ fees award by attacking the nature o... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.25, Costs: 0.1136363636363636 | ORR, Circuit Judge.
Appellant is an anthropologist who spent several years in the early 1950’s studying the effects of radiation on the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb blasts. In 1958 the Atomic Energy Commission was conducting a series of nuclear tests at the Eniwetok Proving Grounds in the Pacific... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.01785714285714286, Costs: 0.01785714285714286 | ALARCON, Circuit Judge:
James M. Fejes appeals from the judgment entered following his felony convictions for conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act under 18 U.S.C. § 371, and two substantive violations of the Lacey Act under 16 U.S.C. §§ 3372(a)(2)(A), 3373(d)(1)(B), and 18 U.S.C. § 2. The jury found that Fejes sold cari... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.15625, Costs: 0.0625 | BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.
The defendant-appellant, Donald Charles Seest, owns and operates a farm in Polk County in west central Minnesota. A quarter section of his land is subject to an easement in favor of the United States Department of Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. T... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.04310344827586207, Costs: 0 | OPINION OF THE COURT
FISHER, Circuit Judge.
Cleve-Allan George and Dylan C. Starnes appeal from judgments of conviction and sentence entered against them following a jury trial in the United States District Court for the District of the Virgin Islands. Although these appeals have not been formally consolidated, we reso... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
Benefits: 0.00847457627118644, Costs: 0.00847457627118644 | DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge:
These are petitions to set aside a report and order issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission in Ex Parte No. MC-37 (Sub-No. 26), Commercial Zones and Terminal Areas, 1976, 128 M.C.C. 422. In that proceeding the Commission adopted new rules for determining geographic boundaries of commercial ... | The following is a judicial opinion. Please identify the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss benefits and the percentage of paragraphs in the opinion that discuss costs. Please output a number between 0 and 1 depending on the percentages in each opinion. 0 represents that 0 percent of the paragraphs ta... |
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