News & Analysis as of

Endangered Species Act (ESA) Article III

Nossaman LLP

Federal Court Dismisses Fishing Industry Challenge to Massachusetts Offshore Wind Project

Nossaman LLP on

On Thursday, October 12, 2023, Judge Indira Talwani of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted summary judgment in favor of the United States Department of the Interior and Vineyard Wind, and denied...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals

This week at the Ninth: Bull Trout and Claim Preclusion

This week, the Court wrestles with res judicata issues stemming from the dismissal of an Endangered Species Act suit for lack of jurisdiction. The Court holds that claim preclusion bars plaintiffs from reasserting claims...more

Nossaman LLP

D.C. Circuit Shuts Down Challenge to Species Status Assessments

Nossaman LLP on

In a per curiam decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit dismissed the Center for Biological Diversity’s (CBD) challenge to the Fish and Wildlife Service’s (Service) process for assessing the status...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

U.S. Supreme Court limits Nationwide Permit 12 injunction to Keystone XL pipeline

Bricker Graydon LLP on

On July 6, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court granted in part and denied in part the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ application for stay of the order issued by the U.S. District Court of Montana....more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Army Corps asks U.S. Supreme Court to stay vacatur and injunction of NWP12, pending appeal

Bricker Graydon LLP on

Update June 17, 2020: On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers filed an application to the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of the April 15, 2020, order (amended May 11, 2020) issued by the U.S. District Court of...more

Pillsbury - Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real...

A Court-Side Seat: January 2020 Environmental Rulings of Interest

January has been a busy month for the Fifth Circuit, which has issued a number of significant rulings....more

Nossaman LLP

Environmental Groups’ NEPA Challenge to USDA Wolf Killing Survives

Nossaman LLP on

On April 23, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that environmental groups have standing to challenge the federal government’s killing of gray wolves in Idaho without conducting additional analysis...more

Nossaman LLP

Ninth Circuit Dismisses Challenge to Policy regarding ESA Criminal Prosecutions

Nossaman LLP on

In WildEarth Guardians et al. v. U.S. Department of Justice, Case Nos. 17-16677, 17-16678, 17-16679 (Oct. 23, 2018), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed plaintiff-appellees case challenging the U.S....more

Weintraub Tobin

Ninth Circuit Denies Copyright Protection To Monkeys

Weintraub Tobin on

Does anyone think that a monkey has standing to bring a copyright infringement lawsuit? In Naruto v. Slater, 888 F.3d 418 (9th Cir. 2018), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said no, but not without carefully considering the...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Dietary Supplement & Cosmetics Legal Bulletin | October 2017

The use of beauty products is “an understudied source of environmental chemical exposures” with a disparate effect on women of color, George Washington University and Occidental College researchers argue. Ami R. Zota, et al.,...more

Nossaman LLP

U.S. District Court Finds EPA Erred in Approving Pesticides Known To Impact Endangered Species

Nossaman LLP on

On May 8, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted, in part, a motion for summary judgment brought by plaintiffs in a suit challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”)...more

Nossaman LLP

Ninth Circuit Rules Injury from Future Water Rights Restrictions Too Speculative for Article III Standing

Nossaman LLP on

On February 21, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority and Westlands Water District (collectively, “Water Contractors”) lacked Article III standing to...more

Nossaman LLP

U.S. Supreme Court Denies U.S. Forest Service’s Petition for Review in Canadian Lynx Case

Nossaman LLP on

On October 11, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the U.S. Forest Service’s (“Forest Service”) petition for writ of certiorari to review the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Cottonwood Environmental...more

Nossaman LLP

D.C. Circuit Holds Informational Standing Nonexistent Prior to 12-Month Finding

Nossaman LLP on

In a recent decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed the dismissal of an environmental organization’s Endangered Species Act (ESA) claim, concluding that the organization lacked standing...more

Pillsbury - Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real...

Congress’ Directive to Service to Reinstate Captive-Bred Exemption Upheld

Since the celebrated Supreme Court decision of Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill, which for a time sidetracked the Antelopeconstruction of the Tellico Dam, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has been recognized as a...more

Nossaman LLP

D.C. Circuit Holds Injury Exists Where Statutory Enactment Denies Plaintiff’s Right to Information; Upholds Section 9 Exemption...

Nossaman LLP on

On June 3, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held in Friends of Animals v. Jewell (No. 1:14-cv-00357) that Plaintiff Friends of Animals (“Plaintiff”) had Article III standing to pursue a constitutional...more

Nossaman LLP

U.S. District Court Rejects Challenges to Final Rule Terminating Sea Otter Translocation Program.

Nossaman LLP on

On September 18, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California rejected the assertion by the California Sea Urchin Commission, California Abalone Association, and Commercial Fishermen of Santa Barbara...more

17 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide