Principal Law:

Endangered Species Act (ESA)

195 Cases found

Save the Bull Trout v. Williams

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Judgment for defendants affirmed on claim preclusion grounds. [ 09/28/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the Bull Trout Recovery Plan approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2015.

Center for Biological Diversity v. EPA

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 11/21/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to Safe Drinking Water Act exemption that would allegedly allow injection of oil and gas wastewater and other fluids in oil field in San Luis Obispo County in California.

Hoopa Valley Tribe v. Ross

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: First amended complaint filed. [ 06/03/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel the re-initiation of Section 7 consultation regarding impacts of ocean salmon fisheries on Southern Oregon/Northern California Coastal coho based on new developments and information since 1999, including climate change information.

Sound Rivers, Inc. v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: E.D.N.C.
Status: Joint stipulation of voluntary dismissal with prejudice filed. [ 09/17/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to highway through Piedmont North Carolina, including for failure to analyze greenhouse gas emissions and climate change and new federal rule "freezing" CAFE standards.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Haw.
Status: Stipulated settlement agreement and order filed. [ 02/25/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel the designation of critical habitat for 14 species of plants and animals from the island of Hawai‘i that were listed as endangered in 2013.

WildEarth Guardians v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Ariz.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 09/05/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s decision that listing of the Sonoran desert tortoise under the Endangered Species Act was “not warranted.”

Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: S.D. Fla.
Status: Case dismissed without prejudice. [ 09/27/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision not to list the Florida Keys mole skink under the Endangered Species Act.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Ross

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Parties entered into stipulated settlement agreement. [ 02/27/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel the designation of critical habitat for threatened coral species.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Haaland

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Amended order issued granting motion to remand without vacatur. [ 11/16/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to amendments to the Endangered Species Act regulations.

WildEarth Guardians v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Cal.
Status: Plaintiff filed voluntary dismissal. [ 08/15/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel response to list the Joshua tree as a threatened species.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Ross

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Alaska
Status: Complaint filed. [ 06/13/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit asserting that the National Marine Fisheries Service violated the Endangered Species Act by failing to designate critical habitat for ringed and bearded seals.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Order issued incorporating terms of stipulated settlement agreement, dismissing action with prejudice, and providing that court shall have continuing jurisdiction to enforce terms of agreement. [ 03/24/2020 ]
Description: Action to compel a listing determination under the Endangered Species Act for the emperor penguin.

Buffalo Field Campaign v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 05/15/2019 ]
Description: Action to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to take action in response to list the Yellowstone bison as an endangered or threatened distinct population segment of plains bison.

Living Rivers v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Utah
Status: Opening brief filed by plaintiffs. [ 06/17/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging approval of rights-of-way for construction and operation of commercial-scale oil-shale mine and processing plant.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Case dismissed pursuant to stipulated settlement agreement. [ 02/18/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's failure to protect eight species under the Endangered Species Act.