Amoco Production Co. v. Gambell
480 U.S. 531 (1987) Cited 2,078 times 1 Legal AnalysesHolding that a District Court did not err in declining to issue an injunction to bar exploratory drilling on Alaskan public lands, because the district court's decision "did not undermine" the policy of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, 16 U.S.C. § 3120, and because the Secretary of the Interior had other means of meaningfully complying with the statute
Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo
456 U.S. 305 (1982) Cited 1,763 times 4 Legal AnalysesHolding that Federal Water Pollution Control Act did not mandate injunctions against its violation
Friends of Earth, Inc. v. E.P.A
446 F.3d 140 (D.C. Cir. 2006) Cited 48 times 1 Legal AnalysesHolding that "to avoid a literal interpretation [of the statutory text], [a litigant] must show either that, as a matter of historical fact, Congress did not mean what it appears to have said, or that, as a matter of logic and statutory structure, it almost surely could not have meant it"
Izaak Walton League of America v. Marsh
655 F.2d 346 (D.C. Cir. 1981) Cited 94 timesHolding that " [s]o long as the environmental impact statement identifies areas of uncertainty, the agency has fulfilled its mission under NEPA"
Realty Income Trust v. Eckerd
564 F.2d 447 (D.C. Cir. 1977) Cited 74 timesHolding that “equity should not require the doing of a ‘vain or useless thing’ ”