Weekly Cases Update Volume 50, Issue 6

The cases listed below appear in the most recent issue of ELR's Weekly Update. For cases previously reported, please use the filter on the left.

Volume 50, Issue 10

ELR 2007118-2559(8th Cir., )

The Eighth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a constitutional challenge to Minnesota's right of first refusal (ROFR) law.

Keywords:
Energy (generally)
ELR 2006916-1276L(Fed. Cl., )

The Court of Federal Claims granted in part and denied in part the Bureau of Reclamation's motion to dismiss a lawsuit concerning its curtailing of water deliveries during a drought in California.

Keywords:
Breach
ELR 2007418-cv-00521-HSG and 18-cv-00524-HSG(N.D. Cal., )

A district court upheld BLM's rule that repealed a 2015 rule regulating hydraulic fracturing operations on federal and tribal lands.

Keywords:
Held not required for
ELR 2007919-960 (RDM)(D.D.C., )

A district court dismissed for lack of standing a lawsuit challenging the Executive Order that requires agencies to repeal two existing rules for each new rule promulgated.

Keywords:
Standing to sue
ELR 200801:19-cv-00408 (TNM) and 1:19-cv-00720(D.D.C., )

A district court granted in part and denied in part the Trump Administration's motion to dismiss a challenge to its plans to fund construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Keywords:
Agencies
ELR 2007016-1534 (JEB)(D.D.C., )

A district court held that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must prepare an EIS for the Dakota Access Pipeline that runs from North Dakota to Illinois.

Keywords:
Held required for
ELR 2007717-1714 (BAH)(D.D.C., )

A district court denied summary judgment to an environmental group in a challenge to the USDA Farm Service Agency's (FSA's) EA for a loan guarantee to construct and operate a poultry concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) in Maryland.

Keywords:
Discussion of, held adequate
ELR 2007318-23-SDD-EWD(M.D. La., )

A district court denied summary judgment to environmental groups in a challenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' issuance of permits for construction of a crude oil pipeline across the Atchafalaya Basin.

Keywords:
Discussion of, held adequate

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