Wildlife

A district court granted in part and denied in part environmental groups' motion for summary judgment in a challenge to FWS' 2022 biological opinion (BiOp) regarding the nationwide effects of the…

A district court granted in part and denied in part environmental groups' motion for summary judgment in a challenge to the Forest Service's revised land and resource management plan for the…

A district court granted environmental groups' motion for summary judgment in a challenge to FWS' letters of concurrence finding that BLM reauthorization of livestock grazing in Agua Fria…

A district court denied an environmental group's motion for summary judgment in a challenge to FWS' denial of the group's petition to redesignate the experimental red wolf population in eastern…

A district court granted in part and denied in part an environmental group's motion for summary judgment in a dispute concerning federal agencies' management of two dams on the Yuba River. The…

A district court granted in part and denied in part summary judgment for environmental groups in a challenge to six ESA regulatory provisions promulgated in 2019 and 2024. The groups argued the…

A district court denied an environmental group's motion for summary judgment in a challenge to FWS' critical habitat designation for the northern Mexican gartersnake. The group argued the…

A district court denied federal agencies' motion to dismiss a long-running dispute concerning impacts of hydropower dam operations on endangered steelhead and salmon in the Columbia and Snake…

The Ninth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part a district court ruling in a challenge to NMFS' issuance of critical habitat designations for two species of Arctic seal. The state of…

A district court granted motions for preliminary injunction brought by environmental groups, fishing groups, tribes, and the state of Oregon in a long-running dispute over the Army Corps of…