Defenders of Wildlife v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
A district court granted an environmental group's motion for preliminary injunction in a challenge to FWS' alleged allowance of commercial horseshoe crab harvesting in the Cape Romain Wildlife Refuge. The group argued the Service violated the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act (Refuge I...
The Klamath Tribes v. United States Bureau of Reclamation
A district court denied a Native American tribe's request to limit water releases from the Upper Klamath Lake to protect two endangered sucker fish species. The tribe argued that the Bureau of Reclamation's plan to regulate water in the Klamath Basin violated the ESA by allowing the lake's water lev...
League of United Latin American Citizens v. Regan
The Ninth Circuit granted, 2-1, environmental groups' petitions to review EPA's 2017 decision denying their 2007 petition seeking to revoke all tolerances and registrations for the insecticide chlorpyrifos and its 2019 decision denying all objections to the 2017 decision. In their 2007 petition, the...