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U.S. District Court Orders Immediate Closure of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Goldberg Segalla on 8/28/2025

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Aug. 21 ordered the federal government to refrain from sending additional detainees to the detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” and to begin...more

Endangered Species Act/National Environmental Policy Act: Federal Appellate Court Addresses Challenge to Bureau of Land Management...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 12/5/2022

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) addressed in a November 25th Memorandum a judicial challenge to the United States Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) North Landscape Project (“North...more

Judge Orders Government to Account for Climate Change Impacts before Leasing Federal Lands to Energy Developers

White & Case LLP on 4/2/2019

The US District Court for the District of Columbia has blocked the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from issuing new oil and gas drilling permits on approximately 300,000 acres of federal land in Wyoming until it adequately...more

A New Tenant on Federal Lands: Court Orders BLM to Consider Climate Impacts in Approving Energy Leases

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 3/25/2019

In a victory for environmental groups, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a ruling this week with far-reaching consequences for energy projects on federal lands and “the attention the government must...more

Confined Animal Feeding Operations: Arkansas Environmental Organization Joins Challenge to USDA Rule Changes for Loans to...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 12/19/2018

The White River Waterkeeper, of Arkansas, recently joined other environmental and animal rights advocacy organizations to file a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) 2016...more

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