39 Cases found

Shafer v. Sanchez

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: S.D. Tex.
Status: Motion for preliminary and permanent injunctions denied. [ 01/17/2023 ]
Description: Texas state prison inmate's lawsuit alleging that exposure to excessive heat and humidty and rodent and roach infestations constituted unsafe and unhealthy conditions of confinement in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

New York v. Raimondo

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: S.D.N.Y.
Status: Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment denied and defendants' motion for summary judgment granted. [ 03/29/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to allocation of annual quota for summer flounder.

Protect Our Parks, Inc. v. Buttigieg

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: 7th Cir.
Status: Denial of motion for preliminary injunction affirmed. [ 07/01/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to federal approvals for the construction of the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park in Chicago.

Conservation Law Foundation v. Shell Oil Co.

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D. Conn.
Status: Motion to dismiss granted in part and denied in part. [ 09/16/2022 ]
Description: Citizen suit alleging failures to prepare a bulk storage and fuel terminal in New Haven, Connecticut for the effects of climate change.

Conservation Law Foundation v. Gulf Oil LP

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D. Conn.
Status: Counts dismissed without prejudice for lack of standing. [ 09/29/2022 ]
Description: Citizen suit alleging failures to prepare a bulk storage and fuel terminal in New Haven, Connecticut for the effects of climate change.

Clark v. Haaland

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D.N.M.
Status: Motions to dismiss granted. [ 09/28/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking seeking declarations regarding the application of federal law to certain reclamation and irrigation projects.

In re General Electric Co.

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: EAB
Status: Petition for review denied. [ 02/08/2022 ]
Description: Petition for review of corrective action permit imposing remediation requirements for polychlorinated biphenyls in the Housatonic River in Massachusetts and Connecticut that raised concerns regarding future climate change effects at disposal sites.

GreenRoots, Inc. v. Energy Facilities Siting Board

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: Mass.
Status: Decision of the board affirmed. [ 11/04/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the approval of a petition to move a proposed electric substation's boundaries from a previously approved location.

Friends of Grays Harbor v. State

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: Wash. Ct. App.
Status: Approval of the Grays Harbor County Shoreline Master Program update affirmed. [ 12/12/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the Shorelines Hearing Board's approval of the Grays Harbor County Shoreline Master Program (SMP) update.

Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Foster Poultry Farms

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 09/02/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that a chicken slaughterhouse’s use of millions of gallons of groundwater was unreasonable in violation of Article X, Section 2, of the California Constitution.

San Francisco Baykeeper v. EPA

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Motion for voluntary dismissal granted. [ 03/04/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to EPA's determination that the Redwood City Salt Ponds were not within the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act.

New York v. Ross

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: S.D.N.Y.
Status: Action dismissed. [ 04/09/2021 ]
Description: Challenge by New York State to 2020-2021 specifications for the summer flounder fishery, including a total annual commercial summer flounder quota and a state-by-state allocation of that quota based on a 1993 allocation rule.

New York v. Ross

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: E.D.N.Y.
Status: Case closed with right to reopen. [ 07/30/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to 2019 allocation for summer flounder fishery.

Harrison County v. Mississippi River Commission

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: 5th Cir.
Status: Reply brief filed by appellants. [ 04/14/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit asserting that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Mississippi River Commission failed to consider and mitigate impacts of opening of spillway on Mississippi River on coastal communities and resources.

Casa Mira Homeowners Association v. California Coastal Commission

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Petition and complaint filed. [ 12/13/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to the California Coastal Commission's approval of only a portion of a seawall intended to protect the California Coastal Trail, a sewer line, 10 townhomes, and three apartments.

Watson v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: S.D. Miss.
Status: Motion to dismiss granted. [ 09/14/2021 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that opening of spillway on Mississippi occurred without sufficient consideration of environmental impacts to the Mississippi Sound and Mississippi Public Trust.

York County v. Rambo

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 02/22/2019 ]
Description: Federal securities class action brought by bond investors in PG&E in connection with California wildfires in 2017 and 2018.