In this case, the plaintiff is challenging three sanction decisions taken against him by the Superintendence for the Environment. The decisions of the Superintendence were taken to condemn several infractions to environmental law which happened in the management of the water treatment systems in the localities of Chol Chol, Gorbea and Freire and Pitrufquen.

The plaintiff sough a hierarchical...

A. is the owner of two land parcels located in a forested area. One of the parcels was fully covered with trees. In 2010, a communal forest ranger noticed that A. has constructed an unauthorized access road through the forest. As a result, an investigation judge condemned A. to a conditional day-fine penalty. In parallel to the criminal procedure, the Directorate-General for Environment of the...

In this case, the plaintiff is challenging the administrative sanctions taken against him by the Superintendence for the Environment for not respecting the environmental legislation and building a dam and diverting the waters of the River Calle Calle.

The plaintiff alleged that his dam was not changing the course of the river and that consequently the administrative sanctions had to be lifted...

The defendants-appelants Arnold Bengis, Jeffrey Noll and David Bengis pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit smuggling and violate the Lacey Act, which prohibits trade in illegal fish and wildlife, and to substantive violations of the Lacey Act. A restitution order was entered requiring Arnold Bengis, Noll and David Bengis  to pay $22.446.720 to South Africa. The defendants claimed that the...

David L. Place appeals his convictions for illegally trafficking in sperm whale teeth and narwhal tusks. Specifically, a jury found that Place's whale-tooth dealings violated CITES, the international compact implemented in the United States via the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and regulations authorized by the ESA. But Place says the district judge should have instructed the jury on certain lesser...

1In Harrison v Baring [2012] NSWLEC 117 (Harrison (No 1)) I found Mr Baring, the Defendant, guilty of ten offences under s 341(1)(a) and s 343(1)(a1) of the Water Management Act 2000 (WM Act). The offences arose from taking water on four separate occasions from the Lachlan Regulated River Water Source (Lachlan River) in 2008, relating to the irrigation of a wheat and a canola crop. Four of the...

In this case, etitioner Southern Union Company is a natural gas distributor. Its subsidiary stored liquid mercury, a hazardous substance, at a facility in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. In September 2004, youths from a nearby apartment complex broke into the facility, played with the mercury, and spread it around the facility and complex. The complex's residents were temporarily displaced during the...

The Defendant Mr Baring has been charged with ten offences under the Water Management Act 2000 (the WM Act) in relation to the watering of a wheat and a canola crop each on two separate occasions in 2008 on a property called Baring Park east of Condobolin on the Lachlan River. The Prosecutor is employed in the NSW Office of Water and commences this action pursuant to the common informer provisions...

The Supreme Court of the Netherlands decided that the president-director of Trafigura can be prosecuted for his share in the ordering for or directing of the illegal export of hazardous waste from The Netherlands to Ivory Coast in August 2006. His lawyers had pleaded that criminal prosecution should be dismissed, notably because a case against him in Ivory Coast had already been dropped. The...