citizen-suit

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-908 The Glynn Environmental Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Sea Island Acquisition, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending Response Waived administrative-appeal citizen-suit clean-water-act federal-court jurisdictional-determination permit-waiver Is a Clean Water Act permittee's waiver of "any challenge" to the jurisdictional status of a wetland "in any Federal court" limited to government suit…
25A582 The Glynn Environmental Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Sea Island Acquisition, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-18 Application citizen-suit clean-water-act corps-of-engineers jurisdictional-determination permit-challenge waiver 1. This case presents an important question regarding whether a waiver accompanying a preliminary jurisdictional determination by the U.S. Army Corps …
24-982 ExxonMobil Corporation, et al. v. Environment Texas Citizen Lobby, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii citizen-suit clean-air-act environmental-litigation redressability traceability 1. Whether, as the Fifth Circuit has held, a plaintiff in a CAA citizen suit may satisfy Article III's traceability requirement merely by showing that…
24-350 Port of Tacoma, et al. v. Puget Soundkeeper Alliance Ninth Circuit 2024-09-27 Denied CVSGAmici (7)Relisted (2) citizen-suit clean-water-act federal-jurisdiction npdes pollutant-discharge state-law Whether Section 505 of the CWA authorizes citizens to invoke the federal courts to enforce conditions of state-issued pollutant-discharge permits adop…
23-751 0.12 Acres of Land, More or Less, in Washington County, Maryland, et al. v. Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response Waived citizen-suit eleventh-amendment eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction judicial-power natural-gas-act sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity Does the Eleventh Amendment's statement that "[t]he Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend" to suits "commenced or prose…
21-1500 Residents of Gordon Plaza, Inc. v. LaToya Cantrell, in Her Official Capacity as Mayor of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied cercla citizen-suit comprehensive-environmental-response-compensation- consent-decree environmental-law epa-consent-decree operation-and-maintenance rcra removal-action resource-conservation-and-recovery-act The Fifth Circuit ruled that homeowners on a toxic landfill are precluded from suing under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA"), 42 U.S…
21-1040 Corona Clay Company v. Inland Empire Waterkeeper, a Project of Orange County Coastkeeper, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied article-iii-standing citizen-suit civil-rights clean-water-act due-process environmental-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure informational-injury jurisdictional-waters standing 1. Whether, in a private citizen suit brought under 33 U.S.C. § 1365(a) of the Clean Water Act (the "CWA"), a plaintiff can establish Article III stan…
18-1564 LAJIM, LLC, et al. v. General Electric Company Seventh Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied citizen-suit consent-order environmental-law federal-court-discretion federalism imminent-and-substantial-endangerment injunctive-relief rcra-citizen-suit resource-conservation-and-recovery-act state-consent-order statutory-interpretation Petitioners are private attorneys general who brought a Congressionally authorized Citizen Suit against Respondent under the Resource Conservation and…
18-1264 Ronald Clark Fleshman, Jr. v. Volkswagen, AG, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response Waived administrative-law citizen-suit class-action-settlement clean-air-act defeat-devices emissions-standards epa epa-regulation state-implementation-plans statutory-interpretation vehicle-emissions vehicle-importation 1. Can the Environmental Protection Agency revise clear statutory terms of the Clean Air Act to allow the importation, sale, and use of motor vehic…
18-268 Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P., et al. v. Upstate Forever, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-09-04 GVR CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (4) citizen-suit clean-water-act discharge-of-pollutants groundwater navigable-waters ongoing-violation point-source soil The Clean Water Act requires a permit for the "discharge of pollutants" into navigable waters, defined as "any addition of any pollutant to navigable …