ELR Citation: 52 ELR 20057
No(s). 20-cv-06787-JSC (N.D. Cal. May 16, 2022) (Corley, J.)

A district court granted summary judgment for environmental groups in a challenge to FWS' 2020 withdrawal of its 2013 proposal to list the bi-state sage-grouse as a threatened species under the ESA, and vacated the withdrawal. The groups argued the withdrawal violated the ESA because the Service's d...