Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Filing Date: 2022
Case Categories:
Principal Laws:
Administrative Procedure Act (APA), Endangered Species Act (ESA)
Description: Challenge to the denial of a 2020 listing petition for the Tucson shovel-nosed snake.
  • Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
    Docket number(s): 22-CV-00286
    Court/Admin Entity: D. Ariz.
    Case Documents:
    Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary
    06/23/2022 Complaint Download Complaint filed. Lawsuit Alleged Failure to Consider New Information on Climate Change Threats in Denial of Listing Petition for Arizona Snake. Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Arizona alleging that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act and the Administrative Procedure Act by denying a 2020 listing petition for the Tucson shovel-nosed snake, which lives solely in two or three counties in Arizona. The complaint alleged that the FWS’s negative 90-day on the finding “failed to acknowledge new information regarding the continued and foreseeable threats to the species from urbanization and roads, agriculture, and climate change.”