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Louisiana Shrimp Ass'n v. Biden
A district court denied a shrimping advocacy group's motion for summary judgment in a challenge to NMFS' 2019 rule requiring turtle excluder devices on skimmer trawl vessels greater than 40 feet in length operating in inshore waters. The group argued the agency failed to justify revoking the pr...
Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice v. United States Department of the Navy
A district court granted in part and denied in part the Navy's motion to dismiss a lawsuit concerning a decades-long radioactive waste cleanup at a naval shipyard in San Francisco. An environmental group argued that the Navy violated the cleanup agreement by rejecting initial strontium samples ...
Center for Biological Diversity v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service
A district court granted in part environmental groups' motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit concerning their 2017 petition to FWS to revise the critical habitat for the endangered Mount Graham red squirrel. The groups argued FWS' delay in resolving their petition was "unreasonable" in violation ...
United Cook Inlet Drift Ass'n v. National Marine Fisheries Service
A district court dismissed a lawsuit brought by a fishing group challenging NMFS' adoption of an amendment to a fisheries management plan (FMP) for salmon fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the coast of Alaska. The group argued the amendment violated the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA) be...