citizen-suit
10 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-908 | The Glynn Environmental Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Sea Island Acquisition, LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | administrative-appeal citizen-suit clean-water-act federal-court jurisdictional-determination permit-waiver | Is a Clean Water Act permittee's waiver of "any challenge" to the jurisdictional status of a wetland "in any Federal court" limited to government suit… |
| 25A582 | The Glynn Environmental Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Sea Island Acquisition, LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-18 | Presumed Complete | citizen-suit clean-water-act corps-of-engineers jurisdictional-determination permit-challenge waiver | 1. This case presents an important question regarding whether a waiver accompanying a preliminary jurisdictional determination by the U.S. Army Corps … | |
| 24-982 | ExxonMobil Corporation, et al. v. Environment Texas Citizen Lobby, Incorporated, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-13 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | article-iii citizen-suit clean-air-act environmental-litigation redressability traceability | 1. Whether, as the Fifth Circuit has held, a plaintiff in a CAA citizen suit may satisfy Article III's traceability requirement merely by showing that… |
| 24-350 | Port of Tacoma, et al. v. Puget Soundkeeper Alliance | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-27 | Denied | CVSGAmici (7)Relisted (2) | citizen-suit clean-water-act federal-jurisdiction npdes pollutant-discharge state-law | Whether Section 505 of the CWA authorizes citizens to invoke the federal courts to enforce conditions of state-issued pollutant-discharge permits adop… |
| 23-751 | 0.12 Acres of Land, More or Less, in Washington County, Maryland, et al. v. Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-11 | Denied | Response Waived | citizen-suit eleventh-amendment eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction judicial-power natural-gas-act sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity | Does the Eleventh Amendment's statement that "[t]he Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend" to suits "commenced or prose… |
| 21-1500 | Residents of Gordon Plaza, Inc. v. LaToya Cantrell, in Her Official Capacity as Mayor of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-31 | Denied | cercla citizen-suit comprehensive-environmental-response-compensation- consent-decree environmental-law epa-consent-decree operation-and-maintenance rcra removal-action resource-conservation-and-recovery-act | The Fifth Circuit ruled that homeowners on a toxic landfill are precluded from suing under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA"), 42 U.S… | |
| 21-1040 | Corona Clay Company v. Inland Empire Waterkeeper, a Project of Orange County Coastkeeper, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-26 | Denied | article-iii-standing citizen-suit civil-rights clean-water-act due-process environmental-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure informational-injury jurisdictional-waters standing | 1. Whether, in a private citizen suit brought under 33 U.S.C. § 1365(a) of the Clean Water Act (the "CWA"), a plaintiff can establish Article III stan… | |
| 18-1564 | LAJIM, LLC, et al. v. General Electric Company | Seventh Circuit | 2019-06-21 | Denied | citizen-suit consent-order environmental-law federal-court-discretion federalism imminent-and-substantial-endangerment injunctive-relief rcra-citizen-suit resource-conservation-and-recovery-act state-consent-order statutory-interpretation | Petitioners are private attorneys general who brought a Congressionally authorized Citizen Suit against Respondent under the Resource Conservation and… | |
| 18-1264 | Ronald Clark Fleshman, Jr. v. Volkswagen, AG, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law citizen-suit class-action-settlement clean-air-act defeat-devices emissions-standards epa epa-regulation state-implementation-plans statutory-interpretation vehicle-emissions vehicle-importation | 1. Can the Environmental Protection Agency revise clear statutory terms of the Clean Air Act to allow the importation, sale, and use of motor vehic… |
| 18-268 | Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P., et al. v. Upstate Forever, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-04 | GVR | CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (4) | citizen-suit clean-water-act discharge-of-pollutants groundwater navigable-waters ongoing-violation point-source soil | The Clean Water Act requires a permit for the "discharge of pollutants" into navigable waters, defined as "any addition of any pollutant to navigable … |