Weekly Cases Update Volume 50, Issue 7

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Volume 50, Issue 15

ELR 2011718-14817(11th Cir., )

The Eleventh Circuit vacated and remanded the U.S. Tax Court's decision disallowing a charitable deduction for a conservation easement over property that included a private golf course and undeveloped land.

Keywords:
Land Use (generally)
ELR 201131:20-CV-00426-DAD-EPG and 1:20-CV-00431-DAD-EPG(E.D. Cal., )

A district court preliminarily enjoined the Bureau of Reclamation from expanding water export operations in California's Central Valley based on biological opinions (BiOps) adopted by NMFS and FWS in 2019.

Keywords:
Biological opinion, §7(b)
ELR 2011619-80730-CIV-SMITH(S.D. Fla., )

A district court dismissed for lack of standing a challenge to sugarcane producers' annual burning of sugarcane fields.

Keywords:
Standing to sue
ELR 201141:19-cv-00203-CWD(D. Idaho, )

A magistrate judge granted in part and denied in part the Forest Service's and FWS' motion to dismiss a lawsuit concerning a Forest Service policy that allows states to decide whether bait can be used to hunt black bears in national forests.

Keywords:
Incidental taking
ELR 20115CV 19-44-GF-BMM(D. Mont., )

A district court amended a previous order that vacated a nationwide permit (NWP 12) reissued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and enjoined the Corps from authorizing any dredge or fill activities under the permit pending completion of the ESA §7 consultation process.

Keywords:
Interagency consultation, §7(a)

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