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Center for Biological Diversity v. Haaland

Filing Date: 2023
Case Categories:
  • Federal Statutory Claims
    • Endangered Species Act and Other Wildlife Protection Statutes
  • Federal Statutory Claims
    • NEPA
Principal Laws:
Administrative Procedure Act (APA), Endangered Species Act (ESA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
Description: Challenge to the National Park Service’s release of land-use restrictions to facilitate the development of a proposed waterpark, hotel, and retail development in Miami-Dade County.
  • Center for Biological Diversity v. Haaland
    Docket number(s): 1:23-cv-20495
    Court/Admin Entity: S.D. Fla.
    Case Documents:
    Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary
    02/08/2023 Complaint Download Complaint filed. Conservation Groups Challenged National Park Service Decisions that Would Allow Development of Waterpark in Miami-Dade County. Center for Biological Diversity and three other conservation organizations filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the Southern District of Florida challenging the National Park Service’s release of land-use restrictions to facilitate the development of a proposed waterpark, hotel, and retail development in Miami-Dade County. The organizations alleged that the project threatened survival and recovery of endangered species and “globally critically endangered pine rocklands,” which “have been reduced to only three percent of their historic range and continue to be critically endangered by urban and agricultural development, climate change, and sea level rise.” The complaint asserted that the National Park Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act.

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