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Publication Date: 2017-05-26
Practice Area: Environmental Law | Civil Procedure
Industry: Mining and Resources
Date Filed: 2017-05-25
Court: C.A. 1st
Judge:
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Greenfire Law, PC, Rachel S. Doughty for Plaintiff and Appellant.
for defendant: Terry N. Gross, Esq.; Office of the County Counsel for Mendocino County, Katharine L. Elliottand Michael John Makdisi; Law Offices of Rapport and Marston, David Joseph Rapport for Defendants and Respondents.
Case Number: No. A148508
Local environmental group could sue county air quality management district under CEQA for issuance of "Authority to Construct" (Banke, J.)
Publication Date: 2017-05-23
Practice Area: Environmental Law
Industry: Mining and Resources
Date Filed: 2017-05-23
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Ralph R. Beistline, Senior District Judge, Presiding Before: Alex Kozinski, Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Holly Anne Harris (argued), Thomas S. Waldo, and Eric P. Jorgensen, Earthjustice, Juneau, Alaska, for Plaintiffs-Appellants/Plaintiffs.
for defendant: Allen M. Brabender (argued), Emily Polachek, and David Glazer, Attorneys; John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General; Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; James Ustasiewski and Kate Baldridge, Office of General Counsel, United States Department of Agriculture; for Defendants-Appellees.
Case Number: No. 15-35232 No. 15-35233 No. 15-35244
National Forest Management Act required protection of "viable" population only (Kozinski, J.)
Publication Date: 2017-05-18
Practice Area: Environmental Law
Industry:
Date Filed: 2017-05-18
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Michael W. Fitzgerald, District Judge, Presiding Before: MILAN D. SMITH, JR. and JOHN B. OWENS, Circuit Judges, and EDWARD R. KORMAN,**District Judge.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric R. Giltzenstein (argued) and William N. Lawton, Meyer Glitzenstein & Eubanks, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellant.
for defendant: Varu Chilakamarri (argued), J. David Gunter II, and Andrew C. Mergen; John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General; Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellees.
Case Number: No. 15-55806
Bureau of Land Management's Biological Opinion regarding solar project's impacts on desert tortoise neither legally nor factually flawed (M.D. Smith, J.)
Publication Date: 2017-05-17
Practice Area: Energy and Natural Resources | Environmental Law | Regulation
Industry: Energy
Date Filed: 2017-04-17
Court: C.A. 3rd
Judge:
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Diepenbrock Elkin Gleason LLP and Jennifer L. Dauer for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
for defendant: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, David Chaney, Chief Assistant Attorney General, John Saurenman, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Christiana Tiedemann, Deputy Attorney General, David G. Alderson and Tara L. Mueller, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Respondent.
Case Number: No. C079617
Federal mining patents had no effect on application of state regulation of mining (Duarte, J.)
Publication Date: 2017-05-17
Practice Area: Environmental Law
Industry: Non–Profit
Date Filed: 2017-05-17
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Dana L. Christensen, Chief Judge, Presiding Before: William A. Fletcher, Raymond C. Fisher, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy M. Bechtold (argued), Bechtold Law Firm, Missoula, Montana, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
for defendant: Thekla Hansen-Young (argued), John P. Tustin, Robert P. Stockman, and Andrew C. Mergen, Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Dana Jacobsen, Office of the Regional Solicitor, United States Department of the Interior, Denver, Colorado; Alan Campbell, Office of the General Counsel, United States Department of Agriculture, Missoula, Montana; for Defendants-Appellees.
Case Number: No. 14-35786
Closure of roads by berms or barriers sufficed to prevent them from counting towards linear miles of total roads permitted under forest plan (Fletcher, J.)
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Publication Date: 2017-05-08
Practice Area: Environmental Law
Industry: Education | Non–Profit
Date Filed: 2017-05-05
Court: C.A. 1st
Judge:
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Plaintiff and Respondent: Susan Brandt-Hawley, Brandt-Hawley Law Group.
for defendant: Counsel for Defendants and Appellants: Eugene Whitlock, San Mateo County Counsel, James G. Moose, Remy Moose Manley LLP, Sabrina V. Teller, Remy Moose Manley LLP, John T. Wheat, Remy Moose Manley LLP.
Case Number: No. A135892
Substantial evidence did not support agency's determination that changes to project required only addendum to previous negative declaration (Humes, P.J.)
Publication Date: 2017-04-28
Practice Area: Environmental Law
Industry: Non–Profit
Date Filed: 2017-04-28
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Dana L. Christensen, Chief Judge, Presiding Before: William A. Fletcher, Ronald M. Gould, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rebecca Kay Smith (argued), Public Interest Defense Center, Missoula, Montana; Timothy M. Bechtold, Bechtold Law Firm, Missoula, Montana; for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
for defendant: Robert Parke Stockman (argued), H. Hubert Yang, David C. Shilton, and Andrew C. Mergen, Attorneys; John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General; Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Kristin Tita, Office of the Solicitor, Rocky Mountain Region, United States Department of the Interior, Denver, Colorado; for Defendants-Appellees.
Case Number: No. 14-35431
Species "listing priority number" not sole factor to be considered in determining whether or not to list it as endangered (Gould, J.)
Publication Date: 2017-04-27
Practice Area: Environmental Law
Industry: Non–Profit | State and Local Government
Date Filed: 2017-04-27
Court: C.A. 4th
Judge:
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandt-Hawley Law Group and Susan Brandt-Hawley for Plaintiff and Respondent Save Our Heritage Organisation.
for defendant: No appearance for Defendants and Respondents City of San Diego et al.
Case Number: No. D070006
No award of private attorney general fees against unsuccessful public interest litigant (McConnell, P.J.)
Publication Date: 2017-04-24
Practice Area: Environmental Law
Industry: Non–Profit
Date Filed: 2017-04-21
Court: C.A. 1st
Judge:
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Plaintiffs and Appellants: Mark R. Wolfe; M.R. Wolfe & Associates, P.C. (Sierra Club), Justin Augustine; Center for Biological Diversity.
for defendant: Counsel for Defendant and Respondents: Bruce D. Goldstein; County Counsel, Jeffrey M. Brax; Chief Deputy Counsel.
Case Number: No. A147340
County's approval of erosion-control permit for new vineyard not discretionary act subject to CEQA. (Humes, P.J.)
Publication Date: 2017-04-12
Practice Area: Environmental Law
Industry: Non–Profit
Date Filed: 2017-04-12
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges, and Robert Holmes Bell,*District Judge.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Melissa Thorme (argued), Downey Brand LLP, Sacramento, California, for Petitioner.
for defendant: Eileen T. McDonough (argued), Attorney; John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General; Environment Defense Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Marcela von Vacano, Assistant Regional Counsel, Region 9, United States Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco, California; Pooja S. Parikh, Attorney-Advisor, Office of the General Counsel, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.; for Respondents.
Case Number: No. 14-74047
No jurisdiction to review EPA "objection letter" (Bybee, J.)
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