On March 21, 2023, activists in St. James Parish, Louisiana filed an environmental justice lawsuit against their local government, claiming that the Parish’s land use system directed industry into primarily Black communities and away from primarily white communities in the Parish, allegedly resulting in disparate racial impacts from pollution, adverse health impacts and the inability of the descendants of slaves to access their ancestors’ unmarked graves. Inclusive Louisiana, et al. v. St. James Parish, et al., 2:23-cv-00987 (E.D. La.). In what might become a template for other environmental justice lawsuits, the complaint chronicles centuries of the Parish’s racial and land use history, links that history to the Parish’s current land use system, and makes wide-ranging and novel constitutional and statutory claims based on that history. Plaintiffs seek various forms of injunctive relief, enjoining the local government from siting more industrial facilities in the 4th and 5th Districts; appointing an independent monitor to enforce and measure compliance with monitoring and reporting obligations; creation of a community board to advise on additional remediation measures; and ordering a study to identify unmarked cemeteries.