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.
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.
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.
Status: Case remanded to the FDA without vacatur for reconsideration of the environmental assessment under NEPA and the ESA analysis in compliance with the court's ruling. [ 11/05/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to the approval of a genetically engineered salmon for human consumption without adequate disclosure and consideration of environmental and other risks, including cumulative effects related to climate change.
Status: Stipulated settlement agreement entered into by plaintiff and defendants. [ 10/11/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel the Secretary of the Interior and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to take action under the Endangered Species Act with respect to 24 species.
Status: First amended complaint filed. [ 10/30/2017 ]
Description: Challenge to biological opinion analyzing impacts of Arizona military installation on endangered bird and plant, including for failure to consider climate change.
Description: Lawsuit to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to designate critical habitat for the western distinct population segment of the yellow-billed cuckoo.
Status: 2018 record of decision and 2019 supplement vacated and remanded to the agencies for additional consideration. [ 04/14/2021 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that agencies violated the Endangered Species Act when they approved a silver and copper mine project in Montana in one of the last remaining undisturbed habitats in the region for the threatened grizzly bear and bull trout.