27 Cases found
Direct Energy Services, LLC v. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority
Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: Conn.
Status: Trial court judgment for PURA affirmed. [ 07/05/2023 ]
Description: Retail energy suppliers' challenge to geographic and marketing restrictions imposed by the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority on voluntary renewable offers (products consisting of renewable energy credits bundled with electric supply).
Kennedy v. Biden
Filing Date: 2023
Court/Admin Entity: W.D. La.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 03/24/2023 ]
Description: Class action lawsuit alleging that federal defendants violated the First Amendment by by inducing social-media companies to censor others’ protected speech, including speech regarding climate change.
CANA Foundation v. U.S. Department of Interior
Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D. Nev.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 09/02/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management decision to remove wild horses and burros from Herd Management Areas in Nevada.
HOPE of Kentucky, LLC v. Cameron
Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Ky.
Status: Motion to dismiss granted in part and case remanded to state court for further proceedings. [ 09/28/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking to block the Kentucky Attorney General's investigation of banks' ESG investment practices.
Durand v. Echols
Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Ga.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 11/15/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that a Georgia Public Service Commissioner violated an individual's free speech rights by blocking her criticism of the Commissioner's positions on energy issues on Twitter and Facebook.
Better Path Coalition Planning Group v. City of Harrisburg
Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: M.D. Pa.
Status: Litigation to remain stayed pending further order of court. [ 03/10/2023 ]
Description: First Amendment challenge by climate activists to City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's system for regulating use of its traditional public forums for expressive purposes.
Clark v. Haaland
Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D.N.M.
Status: Motions to dismiss granted. [ 09/28/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking seeking declarations regarding the application of federal law to certain reclamation and irrigation projects.
City of Helena v. McKinlay
Filing Date: 2012
Court/Admin Entity: Mont. Mun. Ct.
Status: Order issued denying defenses of necessity/compulsion and free speech and granting plaintiff's motion in limine. [ 04/05/2013 ]
Description: Prosecution of citations of 23 citations for criminal trespass with protests at Montana State Capitol.
First Parish in Bedford, Unitarian Universalist v. Historic District Commission of Town of Bedford
Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: Mass. App. Ct.
Status: Settlement reached and Town's appeal withdrawn. [ 12/12/2018 ]
Description: Challenge by church to town's denial of application for certificate of appropriateness allowing installation of solar panels on the church's meetinghouse.
Roemer v. Williams
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: 2d Cir.
Status: Dismissal affirmed. [ 11/02/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking to compel a community college president to require distribution of plaintiff's position paper referring to political movements to reduce fossil fuel use as "malicious hoax."
Spoon v. Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: M.D. La.
Status: Motion for summary judgment filed by HUB Enterprises, Inc. [ 07/25/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit by pipeline protesters against pipeline company, law enforcement officers, and a private security company for violation of federal and state rights.
Landman v. Scott
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Joint motion for order of dismissal with prejudice filed. [ 08/30/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit filed by a Colorado resident against a state senator who blocked her on social media after she criticized his climate change views.
Jensen v. Town of Fraser
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Stipulation for dismissal filed by the parties. [ 11/20/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging a Colorado town's sign code as an unconstitutional content-based restriction on free speech.
White Hat v. Landry
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: W.D. La.
Status: Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment denied and plaintiffs ordered to file a response as to why summary judgment should not be granted in favor of the defendants. [ 06/05/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging 2018 amendments to a Louisiana law that prohibits unauthorized entry of critical infrastructure by expanding the definition of critical infrastructure to include 125,000 miles of pipelines.
Dakota Rural Action v. Noem
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.S.D.
Status: Action dismissed with prejudice pursuant to stipulated settlement agreement. [ 10/29/2019 ]
Description: Challenge by environmental and indigenous groups and activists to South Dakota's "Riot Boosting Act."
iMatter Utah v. Njord
Filing Date: 2011
Court/Admin Entity: 10th Cir.
Status: Opinion issued affirming district court's ruling that insurance and indemnification requirements violated the First Amendment. [ 12/22/2014 ]
Description: Challenge by environmental groups wishing to organize marches to raise climate change awareness to constitutionality of Utah regulations requiring them to obtain insurance and sign an indemnification form.
Animal Legal Defense Fund v. United States
Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Reply brief filed by plaintiffs-appellants. [ 10/19/2021 ]
Description: Claims against the federal government alleging violations of a constitutional right to wilderness and seeking order requiring the government to prepare and implement a remedial plan to mitigate climate change impacts.
Willmeng v. City of Thornton
Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Stipulation filed. [ 10/20/2018 ]
Description: First Amendment lawsuit brought by two Colorado residents against Colorado city and its mayor pro tem for blocking their comments about hydraulic fracturing.
In re Exxon Mobil Corp.
Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: Tex.
Status: Petition for review denied. [ 02/18/2022 ]
Description: Exxon Mobil Corporation petition seeking pre-suit depositions and documents in anticipation of potential claims of abuse of process, conspiracy, infringement of Exxon's rights in connection with California municipalities' climate change lawsuits.