| 25-320 |
Alaska, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
alaska-lands federal-regulation land-management navigable-waters public-lands statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States can regulate fishing on Alaska's navigable waters under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, when its statut… |
| 23-1028 |
Shannon Poe v. Idaho Conservation League |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
addition-of-pollutant chevron-deference clean-water-act discharge-of-pollutant navigable-waters ninth-circuit-ruling pollutant-discharge statutory-interpretation |
Whether there is a 'discharge of a pollutant' under the Clean Water Act when material already within a regulated waterbody is merely moved or resuspen… |
| 23-368 |
Huntington Ingalls Incorporated v. Lynn Barrosse, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
exclusive-remedy federal-preemption longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act maritime-employee navigable-waters preemption state-law-tort state-law-tort-claim workers-compensation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly held that an injured maritime employee who has a workers' compensation remedy under the Longshore and Harbor Worke… |
| 23-38 |
David Anthony Newbold, et al. v. Kinder Morgan SNG Operator, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction maritime-jurisdiction navigable-waters navigation-servitude ordinary-high-water-mark takings terrestrial-vegetation-test |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in limiting the federal navigation servitude |
| 21-7098 |
Thomas G. Landreth v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights indian-law land-use navigable-waters property-rights redress-of-grievances sovereign-immunity treaty-interpretation treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty |
Whether 25 U.S.C. @ 1302 preserves the sovereign immunity claimed by the Quinault Indian Tribe/Nation |
| 21-768 |
Lil’ Man in the Boat, Inc. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
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42-usc-1983 commerce-clause fees-and-obligations navigable-waters rivers-and-harbors-act statutory-interpretation tonnage-clause |
Whether an action can be maintained under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a violation of a Constitutional provision or federal statute |
| 21-454 |
Michael Sackett, et ux. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-24 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (49)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights clean-water-act due-process epa-authority navigable-waters rapanos-test rapanos-v-united-states significant-nexus wetlands-jurisdiction |
Should Rapanos be revisited to adopt the plurality's test for wetlands jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act? |
| 20-899 |
Paul Sorum, et al. v. North Dakota, et al. |
North Dakota |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-gift-clause conflict-preemption equal-footing-doctrine federal-dam-projects flood-control-act navigable-waters public-trust-doctrine submerged-lands-act |
Does Federal law preempt State law for the purpose of determining ownership of the bed of navigable waters within a State? |
| 20-361 |
James Courtney, et al. v. David Danner, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause fourteenth-amendment interstate-commerce navigable-waters privileges-immunities privileges-or-immunities-clause slaughter-house-cases state-government state-power |
Is the 'right to use the navigable waters of the United States' limited solely to uses involving interstate or foreign commerce? |
| 19-839 |
Eastern Oregon Mining Association, et al. v. Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, et al. |
Oregon |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split clean-water-act environmental-regulation material-movement navigable-waters pollutant-discharge pollution-prohibition statutory-interpretation suction-dredge-mining |
Does the Clean Water Act regulate activities that simply move pre-existing material, such as rock, sand, and gravel, within a 'navigable water'? |
| 19-94 |
Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Corporation v. Ingram Barge Company |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
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allision approved-design common-law-duty design-approval legal-standard-of-care navigable-waters negligence negligence-standard rivers-and-harbors-act |
May an owner's preservation of the approved design of a structure in navigable waters which is in compliance with its approved design, constitute negl… |
| 18-1307 |
Tennessee Clean Water Network, et al. v. Tennessee Valley Authority |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Dismissed |
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clean-water-act epa groundwater navigable-waters permit-requirement permitting point-source pollutant-discharge pollution resource-conservation-and-recovery-act |
Whether a defendant's addition of pollutants to a navigable water from a point source via groundwater conduits may ever violate the Clean Water Act's … |
| 18-646 |
Marquette Transportation Company, L.L.C., et al. v. Entergy Mississippi, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
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admiralty admiralty-law comparative-fault maritime-law navigable-waters permit-compliance prejudgment-interest property-interest rivers-and-harbors-act takings tort-action |
Whether a plaintiff claiming damage to a structure placed on navigable waters must show that its structure was permitted in order to maintain a compen… |
| 18-609 |
Joseph David Robertson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-09 |
GVR |
Amici (6) |
appellate-review clean-water-act criminal-procedure motion-for-acquittal navigable-waters rapanos-v-united-states sackett-v-epa united-states-army-corps-of-engineers-v-hawkes-co void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Clean Water Act term 'navigable waters' is void for vagueness |
| 18-593 |
StarLink Logistics, Inc. v. ACC, LLC, et al. |
Tennessee |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
clean-water-act effluent-limits navigable-waters npdes-permit point-source point-source-pollution preemption supremacy-clause |
Whether a state law that authorizes a polluter to discharge covered pollutants from a point source into the navigable waters of the United States with… |
| 18-462 |
Bobbie Gunderson, et vir v. Indiana, et al. |
Indiana |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
beach-access equal-footing equal-footing-doctrine great-lakes high-water-mark land-ownership navigable-waters ordinary-high-water-mark property-rights public-rights state-boundaries state-sovereignty territorial-sovereignty union-admission |
Whether the newly-admitted states took title to the entire beach surrounding the Great Lakes under the federal equal-footing doctrine |
| 18-436 |
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, dba Liberty International Underwriters, et al. v. Carrizo Oil & Gas, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
admiralty-jurisdiction circuit-split contract-services doiron-factors kirby-test maritime-commerce maritime-contract navigable-waters offshore-oil-and-gas offshore-oil-gas vessel-involvement |
Is a contract to provide services to oil wells located on fixed platforms in navigable waters within a State a maritime' contract when a vessel played… |
| 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 |
Whether the Clean Water Act's permitting requirement applies to discharges into soil or groundwater with a direct hydrological connection to navigable… |
| 18-260 |
County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (32)Relisted (3) |
clean-water-act fair-notice groundwater groundwater-contamination groundwater-regulation navigable-waters nonpoint-source nonpoint-source-pollution permit-requirements point-source point-source-pollution underground-injection |
Whether the CWA requires a permit when pollutants originate from a point source but are conveyed to navigable waters by a nonpoint source, such as gro… |