Principal Law:

Supremacy Clause

24 Cases found

Clark v. Haaland

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D.N.M.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 11/12/2021 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking seeking declarations regarding the application of federal law to certain reclamation and irrigation projects.

California Trucking Association v. South Coast Air Quality Management District

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: C.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint in intervention filed by Airlines for America. [ 01/14/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking to block implementation of a South Coast Air Quality Management District rule imposing compliance obligations on warehouses based on the number, type, and emission characteristics of trucks that visit the warehouse facilities.

California Restaurant Association v. City of Berkeley

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Brief filed by amicus curiae American Gas Association in support of the California Restaurant Association. [ 03/22/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to a City of Berkeley ordinance banning natural gas infrastructure in new buildings.

Wheelabrator Baltimore, L.P. v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: 4th Cir.
Status: Appeals dismissed upon consideration of stipulated motion to voluntarily dismiss. [ 11/04/2020 ]
Description: Challenge by operators of waste-to-energy facility and hospital/medical/infectious waste incineration facility to the Baltimore Clean Air Act.

County of Butte v. Department of Water Resources

Filing Date: 2008
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Ct. App.
Status: Appeal dismissed with directions to trial court to vacate its judgment and dismiss the action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. [ 09/05/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging failure to consider the environmental effects of climate change on the operation of the Oroville Dam and related facilities.

Lighthouse Resources Inc. v. Inslee

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Appeal dismissed. [ 03/23/2021 ]
Description: Action against Washington State officials for allegedly taking unlawful actions to block coal export terminal.

Millennium Pipeline Co. v. Seggos

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: N.D.N.Y.
Status: Motion for preliminary injunction granted and motion to dismiss denied. [ 12/13/2017 ]
Description: Action seeking declaratory judgment that federal law preempted state environmental permitting requirements for gas pipeline project and also seeking to enjoin enforcement of state permitting requirements to interfere with project.

City of Oakland v. BP p.l.c.

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: Certiorari denied. [ 06/14/2021 ]
Description: Public nuisance actions brought by City of Oakland and City of San Francisco against fossil fuel companies.

County of San Mateo v. Chevron Corp.

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Amicus curiae brief filed by National Association of Manufacturers in support of appellants' petition for rehearing en banc. [ 05/27/2022 ]
Description: Action by California counties and cities seeking damages and other relief from fossil fuel companies for sea level rise.

Allco Finance Ltd. v. Klee

Filing Date: 2015
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: Certiorari denied. [ 01/22/2018 ]
Description: Challenge by solar energy developer to Connecticut renewable energy programs.

Electric Power Supply Association v. Star

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: Certiorari denied. [ 04/15/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to Illinois law that created a Zero Emissions Credit program allegedly to support uneconomic nuclear plants.

American Petroleum Institute v. Cooper

Filing Date: 2008
Court/Admin Entity: E.D.N.C.
Status: Order issued granting defendants' motion for summary judgment. [ 12/16/2011 ]
Description: Challenge to state law requiring refineries to sell wholesalers gas unblended with ethanol.

Rocky Mountain Farmers Union v. Corey

Filing Date: 2009
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Letter from U.S. Supreme Court dated April 8, 2019 filed. [ 04/12/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard on constitutional grounds.

Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association v. Stine

Filing Date: 2015
Court/Admin Entity: D. Minn.
Status: Memorandum opinion and order issued. [ 09/29/2016 ]
Description: Challenge to Minnesota's requirement that diesel fuel sold in the state contain a certain percentage of biodiesel.

Wyoming v. United States Department of Interior

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: D. Wyo.
Status: Waste Prevention Rule vacated except with respect to specified severable provisions. [ 10/08/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to United States Bureau of Land Management’s final rule concerning methane emissions from oil and gas operations on federal and tribal lands.