High Court Tosses Fine for Felled Trees
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By Christian Hill, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Feb. 9--Steve Sleasman and his wife took their four-year-old legal fight against the city of Lacey to the state's highest court and won a unanimous decision.   But there's no satisfaction in a hollow victory.
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By KIDSON, Sally  A national environmental advocacy group is warning the Tasman District Council that if it doesn't take steps to identify and protect outstanding natural landscapes, the Environment Court could decide for it.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court made it harder Monday to recover legal fees from the government, ruling against a woman who sued for the right to form a peace sign in the nude in a Florida park.  The justices ruled unanimously against Toni Anne Wyner, a nudist from Fort Pierce, Fla.
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A legal challenge to the way the government's "green" tax on air travel was introduced is thrown out by the High Court.
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The Supreme Court yesterday overturned a nearly $80 million verdict intended to punish the Philip Morris tobacco company for endangering the lives of smokers, and the justices set limits on how jurors can decide to make big business pay for wrongdoing.
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By Terence Chea THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge reinstated a ban Wednesday on road construction in nearly 50 million acres of pristine wilderness, overturning a Bush administration rule that could have cleared the way for more commercial activity in national forests.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Dec. 14--The public will have less say over how North Carolina's 1.2 million-acre national forests are managed, environmentalists charge, after a rule change the U.S. Forest Service completed this week.
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The Supreme Court sided with two insurance companies Monday in a case involving alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
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The Supreme Court decision dealt a blow to investors suing companies over accusations of fraud by setting a legal standard that makes it easier to get shareholder lawsuits dismissed.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 14--The Coast's embattled urban trees are about to receive two types of help on Friday.
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By SHARON KILEY MACK; OF THE NEWS STAFF  ST. ALBANS - A seven-year battle over the taking of a landowner's property by eminent domain could be over in the wake of the Maine law court's denial of an appeal on the matter.
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.
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Supermarkets could face multi-million pound fines.
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The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a record &#36;145 billion punitive damage award against tobacco companies for injuring smokers, saying it was excessive even though it agreed that the companies had misled the public about the dangers of cigarettes.
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billion dollar class-action verdict. It was the largest award ever by an American jury. The smokers&#39; lawyers, however, say the justices should reduce the amount if they think it is too large as long as they
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LOBATSE, Botswana  - Botswana's High Court ruled on Wednesday that hundreds of Bushmen had been wrongly evicted from ancestral hunting grounds in the Kalahari desert and should be allowed to return.
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A federal judge in California reinstated Clinton-era protections against logging and mining in forests.