Weekly Cases Update Volume 46, Issue 3

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Volume 46, Issue 2

ELR 2001213-16684(9th Cir., )

The Ninth Circuit, in an unpublished opinion, held that environmental groups have standing to bring a RCRA citizen suit against the U.S. Forest Service for failing to regulate the disposal of spent lead ammunition in the Kaibab National Forest.

Keywords:
Citizen suits, §7002, National forests, Lead
ELR 200111:14-CV-258(D. Idaho, )

A district court ordered the state of Idaho to propose a plan to protect the Canada lynx, a threatened species, from being inadvertently captured or killed in northern Idaho due to traps set by trappers intending to lure other species.

Keywords:
"Take," §9(a)(1)(B), Canada lynx