A district court granted nonprofit groups' and individuals' motion to preliminarily enjoin the scheduled removal of "excess" wild horses in northeastern California. Plaintiffs primarily challenged…
A district court granted a wild horses advocacy group's motion for preliminary injunction in a challenge to the Forest Service's approval of management plans for free-roaming horses in the Apache-…
The Ninth Circuit, 2-1, affirmed a district court ruling that the ESA applied to the Bureau of Reclamation's operation of a water management initiative in Northern California and Southern Oregon…
A district court granted in part and denied in part summary judgment for environmental groups in a challenge to a 2023 amendment to a 1987 forest plan for Bitterroot National Forest. The groups…
A district court granted summary judgment for environmental groups in a challenge to FWS' 2020 biological opinion (BiOp) that found an OSM mining regulatory program was unlikely to jeopardize the…
A district court granted fishing groups', trade groups', and commercial fishermen's motion for preliminary injunction in a challenge to four fishing permits issued by NMFS to four South Atlantic…
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 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…