Bains v. Higgins

How courts have described this case

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• holding that exercise of federal-enclave jurisdiction improper where “Washington avowedly does not seek relief for [toxic-chemical] contamination of federal territories”
• concluding that letters failed to show the Government directed “Monsanto to produce PCBs that it had not already, or would not have otherwise, produced”
• because plaintiff “assert[ed] that it does not seek damages for contamination to waters and land within federal territory,... none of its claims arise on federal enclaves”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).