The courts decided 47 cases in 2014 under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA).1 The issue of whether plaintiffs have standing to sue continued to bedevil the courts. Additionally, in an unusual number of cases, courts overturned governmental rejections of projects, and considered whether changes to unbuilt projects since the environmental review was conducted warranted new review.
In those cases where an environmental impact statement (EIS) had been prepared, the environmental review was overturned in two cases and upheld in nine. Where there had been no EIS, plaintiffs won six cases and lost 25. (The remaining cases cannot be classified in this manner.)
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