Weekly Cases Update Volume 50, Issue 8

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Volume 50, Issue 17

Yurok Tribe v. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
ELR 2013319-cv-04405-WHO(N.D. Cal., )

A district court denied a Native American tribe's request to lift a stay in a lawsuit against the Bureau of Reclamation seeking to protect endangered coho salmon from the impacts of an irrigation project in the Klamath River Basin.

Keywords:
Endangered Species
Massachusetts, Commonwealth of v. Exxon Mobil Corp.
ELR 2013619-12430-WGY(D. Mass., )

A district court remanded back to state court Massachusetts' consumer protection lawsuit concerning an oil company's accounting of climate change risks.

Keywords:
Climate Change (generally)
West Virginia State University Board of Governors v. Dow Chemical Co.
ELR 201412:17-cv-3558(S.D.W. Va., )

A district court granted a university board of governors' motion to remand to state court a lawsuit concerning groundwater contamination beneath university land from a nearby facility.

Keywords:
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)