Physicians for Social Responsibility v. Buttigieg
A district court denied an environmental and public health group's motion for a preliminary injunction in a challenge to FWS' and the Federal Highway Administration's (FHwA's) authorization of a trail development project through a former nuclear weapons production site in Rocky Flats National Wildli...
Schaffner v. Monsanto Corp.
The Third Circuit reversed a ruling that held FIFRA did not preempt state-law tort duties to include a cancer warning on a weedkiller label. A landscaper had argued the agrochemicals company that produces the weedkiller violated Pennsylvania law by omitting the cancer warning from its label. The app...
Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation v. Shea
A district court granted summary judgment for conservation groups in a challenge to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's (APHIS') recent update to a program concerning the use of pesticides to suppress grasshopper and cricket outbreaks. The groups argued APHIS' 2019 EIS and five state-le...