NFS Litigation Weekly October 29, 2021

Actually weekly again.  The Forest Service summary is here:  NFS Litigation Weekly October 29 2021 Email Shorter summaries below include a link to court documents. COURT DECISION 0001_20211025_FloridaDefendersEnivronment_v_ForestService_20_12046_11Cir_17_1128_MDFlorida_RodmanReservoir_OcalaNF Florida Defenders of the Environment v. U.S. Forest Service (11th Cir.) – On October 25, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision favorable to the … Read more

NFS Litigation Weekly July 30, 2021

The Forest Service summary is here:  NFS Litigation Weekly July 30 2021 Email (The last previous “weekly” summary was July 9.) COURT DECISIONS 0001_20210723_SGA_v_UnitedStates_04-786_USCourtFederalClaims_SacromentoAllotments_Lincoln_opinion_order Sacramento Grazing Association, Inc. v. United States (U.S. Court of Federal Claims) – On July 23, 2021 the U.S. Court of Federal Claims reconsidered the court’s 2017 liability determination that the … Read more

Litigation summary supplement, April-May 2021

These recent case developments are evidently not covered in a Forest Service litigation summary. Rock Creek Mine Court decision (Forest Service):  Ksanka Kupaq Xa’lcin v. U. S. fish and Wildlife Service (D. Mont., April 14, 2021) (The news release includes a link to the opinion.) The district court vacated the decision to permit construction of … Read more

Litigation update – early May, 2020

Custer-Gallatin projects (Court decision)  In Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. Marten, the Montana federal district court has lifted the injunctions against the Bozeman Municipal Watershed Fuels Reduction Project and the East Boulder Fuel Reduction Project on the Custer-Gallatin National Forest because they have properly consulted on critical habitat for Canada lynx for both the … Read more

NFS Litigation Weekly June 1, 2018

Litigation Weekly June 1 Conservation Congress v USFS The court upheld the Lava Hazardous Fuel Reduction Project on the Modoc National Forest involving northern spotted owls and gray wolves.  (E.D. Cal.)  (See additional discussion below.) Wild Watersheds v Hurlocker (New case.)  This case involves the Hyde Park Wildland Urban Interface Thinning and Prescribed Fire Project … Read more