| 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 … |