Weekly Cases Update Volume 51, Issue 6

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Volume 51, Issue 10

ELR 200563:19-cv-00238-SLG(D. Alaska, )

A district court granted in part and denied in part environmental groups' motion for summary judgment in a challenge to incidental take regulations promulgated by NMFS that authorized certain oil and gas exploration and production activities in Cook Inlet.

Keywords:
Incidental taking
ELR 2004919-cv-02869(D. Colo., )

A district court granted BLM's motion for voluntary remand in a challenge to the agency's resource management plan (RMP) and EIS for oil and gas leasing in western Colorado.

Keywords:
Cumulative impacts
ELR 2005211-660 (TJK)(D.D.C., )

A district court denied an environmental group's motion for summary judgment in a challenge to NMFS' approval of an amendment to a fishery management plan (FMP) for an Atlantic herring fishery.

Keywords:
Implementation of fishery management plans (FMPs), §305
ELR 2005316-720 (TJK)(D.D.C., )

A district court granted summary judgment for a nonprofit group in a lawsuit seeking FOIA disclosure of records maintained by FWS regarding the import and export of wildlife.

Keywords:
Exemption No. 4
ELR 2005419-3629 (RC)(D.D.C., )

A district court denied the National Park Service's (NPS') motion to dismiss a challenge to its issuance of a policy memorandum concerning the use of electric-assisted bicycles (e-bikes) in national parks.

Keywords:
Mootness
ELR 2005720-1636 (JRT/HB)(D. Minn., )

A district court granted a state's motion to remand to state court a climate change lawsuit against oil and gas companies.

Keywords:
Climate Change (generally)
ELR 200482:20-cv-00028-BU-BMM(D. Mont., )

A district court denied a motion for preliminary injunction in a lawsuit concerning irrigation of a golf course in Big Sky, Montana.

Keywords:
National pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program, 402
ELR 2004520-364 GJF/GBW and 20-727 GJF/GBW(D.N.M., )

A magistrate judge dismissed a lawsuit concerning ownership of a grazing allotment in the Apache National Forest.

Keywords:
Statute of limitations
ELR 20059142, Orig.(U.S., )

The U.S.

Keywords:
Water (generally)
ELR 2004620-97(U.S., )

The U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in a lawsuit concerning President Barack Obama's 2016 proclamation of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Marine Monument off the New England coast. Commercial fishing groups had petitioned the Court to overturn the D.C.

Keywords:
Water (generally)

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