Principal Law:

Endangered Species Act (ESA)

200 Cases found

Appalachian Voices v. Bodman

Filing Date: 2008
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Stipulation of dismissal filed. [ 08/31/2010 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging failure to comply with NEPA and the Endangered Species Act when allocating tax credits for experimental coal-based energy projects and asking for revocation of credits pending NEPA review, including review of carbon emissions.

Colorado v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Filing Date: 2015
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Listing decision and critical habitat designation affirmed. [ 09/27/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to the listing of the Gunnison sage-grouse as a threatened species.

Conservation Congress v. U.S. Forest Service

Filing Date: 2013
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Cal.
Status: Defendants' motion to dissolve the injunction and amend the judgment granted. [ 03/02/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to timber sale project in Mendocino National Forest that allegedly threatened Northern spotted owl.

Center for Native Ecosystems v. Salazar

Filing Date: 2009
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Federal respondents' motion for remand and vacatur granted. [ 07/07/2011 ]
Description: Challenge to delisting of Preble's meadow jumping mouse as endangered or threatened in Wyoming.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 04/12/2018 ]
Description: Action to compel determination on 2013 petition to list the Tinian monarch as endangered or threatened.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Haaland

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Summary judgment reversed and district court directed to remand to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. [ 06/03/2021 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the determination that the listing of the Pacific walrus as endangered or threatened was not warranted.

Coralations v. National Marine Fisheries Service

Filing Date: 2012
Court/Admin Entity: D.P.R.
Status: Opinion and order issued granting in part and denying in part plaintiffs' and defendants cross-motions for summary judgment. [ 09/30/2013 ]
Description: Challenge to federal authorization and management of U.S. Caribbean Reef Fish Fishery for failing to ensure that actions would not jeopardize existence of protected Caribbean corals that face threats due to climate change and other factors.

WildEarth Guardians v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D. Ariz.
Status: WildEarth Guardians et al.'s motion for summary judgment denied, Center for Biological Diversity et al.'s motion for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part, defendants' cross-motions for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part and Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan First Revision remand for further action, including inclusion of site-specific management actions. [ 10/14/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to recovery plan for Mexican wolves.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Ross

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Final rule and 2021 biological opinion remanded and question of vacatur of the 2021 biological opinion held in abeyance. [ 11/17/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that authorization and management of lobster fishery violated federal law due to impacts on North American right whales.

Crow Indian Tribe v. United States

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Ninth Circuit affirmed in part and remanded in part the district court order vacating and remanding the delisting rule. [ 07/08/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to designation of a Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bear distinct population segment (DPS) and a related determination that the DPS was recovered and did not qualify as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

Sierra Club v. Von Kolnitz

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: D.S.C.
Status: Preliminary injunction granted and motion to dismiss denied. [ 08/14/2017 ]
Description: Challenge to temporary sea walls on beaches in South Carolina.

Buffalo Field Campaign v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment granted. [ 01/31/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's decision not to conduct a comprehensive status review for the Yellowstone bison.

WildEarth Guardians v. United States Fish & Wildlife Service

Filing Date: 2013
Court/Admin Entity: D. Ariz.
Status: Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment and defendants' cross-motion for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part; timber management actions ordered to cease pending formal consultation. [ 09/12/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to biological opinions issued by the United States Fish & Wildlife Service that found that forest plans developed by the United States Forest Service (USFS) were not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of the Mexican spotted owl.