Principal Law:

Supremacy Clause

40 Cases found

Colorado Motor Carriers Association v. Town of Vail

Filing Date: 2023
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Motion for preliminary injunction granted in part. [ 12/15/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to Town of Vail ordinance that restricted “high-volume commercial carrier” delivery trucks from entering pedestrian mall areas.

Navigator Heartland Greenway LLC v. Story County

Filing Date: 2023
Court/Admin Entity: S.D. Iowa
Status: Joint stipulation for dismissal without prejudice filed. [ 10/20/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging a May 2023 ordinance passed by Story County, Iowa, that imposes setback and other requirements for carbon dioxide pipelines.

Summit Carbon Solutions, LLC v. Shelby County

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: S.D. Iowa
Status: Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment granted and defendants' motion for summary judgment denied. [ 12/04/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging Iowa county's ordinance regulating hazardous liquid pipelines.

Association of American Railroads v. Randolph

Filing Date: 2023
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Cal.
Status: Motion to dismiss granted in part and denied in part. [ 02/16/2024 ]
Description: Challenge to the California Air Resources Board's “In-Use Locomotive Regulation."

Rivera v. Washington State Building Code Council

Filing Date: 2023
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Wash.
Status: Plaintiffs filed notice of voluntary dismissal without prejudice. [ 08/03/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the Washington State Building Code Council’s amendments of the State Energy Code to ban or restrict the use of natural gas appliances in commercial and residential buildings.

Alverson v. Brown County

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.S.D.
Status: Parties stipulated to the dismissal of the action without prejudice. [ 07/28/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to a county's moratorium on on permits for hazardous waste pipelines, including pipelines to transport carbon dioxide to sequestration sites.

Couser v. Emmet County

Filing Date: 2023
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Iowa
Status: Complaint filed. [ 03/28/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit brought by a developer of an interstate carbon dioxide pipeline and a farmer and part-owner of an ethanol production facility to challenge a county ordinance concerning pipeline permitting and safety.

Navigator Heartland Greenway LLC v. Bremer County

Filing Date: 2023
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Iowa
Status: Joint stipulation for dismissal without prejudice filed. [ 10/20/2023 ]
Description: Carbon dioxide pipeline developer's lawsuit challenging county ordinance that regulates pipeline.

Navigator Heartland Greenway LLC v. Emmet County

Filing Date: 2023
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Iowa
Status: Joint stipulation for dismissal without prejudice filed. [ 10/20/2023 ]
Description: Carbon dioxide pipeline developer's lawsuit challenging county ordinance that regulates pipeline.

Montana v. City of Portland

Filing Date: 2023
Court/Admin Entity: D. Or.
Status: Magistrate judge recommended that all claims be dismissed. [ 02/26/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the City of Portland laws and policies that allegedly prohibit new fuel-export infrastructure in the City.

Couser v. Story County

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: S.D. Iowa
Status: Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment granted and defendants' motion for summary judgment denied. [ 12/04/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to an Iowa county's ordinance establishing setback and other requirements for hazardous materials pipelines, including carbon dioxide pipelines.

Air Products Blue Energy, LLC v. Livingston Parish Government

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: M.D. La.
Status: Joint motion for consent judgment granted. [ 02/14/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit brought by company developing carbon sequestration project challenging local ordinance that attempted “to improperly place a 12-month moratorium on the construction and drilling of Class V well, as well as seismic surveying.”

Portland General Electric Co. v. NorthWestern Co.

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D. Mont.
Status: Findings and recommendations adopted in full and plaintiffs' motions for partial summary judgment granted. [ 10/19/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit brought by out-of-state owners of Montana coal-fired power plant against other owners and Montana Attorney General challenging constitutionality of state laws that created barriers to closure of plant.

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.

California Trucking Association v. South Coast Air Quality Management District

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: C.D. Cal.
Status: Summary judgment granted to defendants with respect to the claims brought under the CAA, ADA, and FAAAA. [ 12/14/2023 ]
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: Petition for rehearing en banc denied and opinion and concurrences amended. [ 01/02/2024 ]
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.