endangered-species-act

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-868 The Art and Antique Dealers League of America, Inc., et al. v. Amanda Lefton, in Her Official Capacity as the Acting Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, et al. Second Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied Amici (1) administrative-exception endangered-species-act federal-regulation ivory-trade preemption state-law Whether the ESA's preemption provision protects all activities enjoying an exception under the ESA, even if self-executing, or only those activities a…
24A53 Nantucket Residents Against Turbines, et al. v. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, et al. First Circuit 2024-07-16 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference endangered-species-act environmental-statutes loper-bright Whether the Supreme Court should apply its Loper Bright decision to review agency interpretations of environmental statutes and limit administrative d…
22-6069 Rufus Spearman v. Mary Parson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations district-court dolan-v-city-of-tigard due-process endangered-species-act federal-procedure judicial-dismissal nollan-v-california-coastal-commission section-1983 takings Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision in Wimbleton v. Ospn, 210 F.3d 1088 (9th Cir. 2000), which held that the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment do…
22-5715 Michael J. Tarvin v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Fifth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied IFP administrative-law critical-habitat endangered-species-act property-rights standing takings-clause Whether the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's designation of critical habitat for the dusky gopher frog under the Endangered Species Act violates the T…
20-7987 Gregory K. Clinton v. Cheryl Dean Riley Fourth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law endangered-species-act environmental-law national-environmental-policy-act standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in its interpretation and application of the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act in up…
20-1195 Kansas Natural Resource Coalition v. Department of the Interior, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Amici (3) administrative-law agency-action civil-rights congressional-review-act endangered-species-act judicial-review procedural-injury separation-of-powers standing Whether a party vindicating a procedural injury lacks standing unless it can establish with certainty that procedural compliance would change the outc…
19-1134 Lonny E. Baley, et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Amici (6) endangered-species-act federal-agency federal-reserved-water-rights fifth-amendment mccarran-amendment reclamation-act state-law state-water-law tribal-rights water-rights Whether federal agency regulatory action under the Endangered Species Act can constitute the adjudication and administration of water rights for triba…
19-547 United States Fish and Wildlife Service, et al. v. Sierra Club, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-28 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (2) agency-action agency-discretion deliberative-process-privilege document-disclosure draft-documents endangered-species-act freedom-of-information-act interagency-consultation Whether Exemption 5 of the Freedom of Information Act protects against compelled disclosure a federal agency's draft documents prepared as part of a f…
19-5832 Daniel G. Durain v. Florida Florida 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law criminal-procedure due-process endangered-species-act environmental-regulation evidence federal-agency-discretion habitat-conservation judicial-interpretation jury-instructions mens-rea premeditation reasonable-doubt Can motive be used to establish premeditation?