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North Carolina Environmental Justice Network v. Taylor

4:12-cv-00154 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

Closed Date: Aug. 29, 2018

On July 27, 2012, the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN), the Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation, and the Waterkeeper Alliance filed this complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. The plaintiffs alleged that the Taylor Finishing Company, a swine concentrated animal feeding operation, illegally polluted under the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and that this pollution endangered human health and the en…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. United States Army Corps of Engineers

1:16-cv-01534 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 27, 2016

On July 27, 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The Tribe, represented by Earthjustice, sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to block the Corps’ actions related to the Dakota Access Pipeline (a 1,168-mile crude oil pipeline running from North Dakota to Illinois). The Tribe sought injunctive and declaratory relief and attorneys’ fees and costs under the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA), the National Histori…
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Yankton Sioux Tribe v. EPA

4:96-cv-04268 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Sept. 17, 1996

Closed Date: 1998

On September 17, 1996, The Yankton Sioux Tribe petitioned the District Court of South Dakota for judicial review of a final decision of Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to grant the Southern Missouri Waste Management District’s (“District”) request to waive the composite liner requirement for a municipal solid waste landfill facility under construction on non-Indian land within the reservation. The Tribe’s complaint alleged that the EPA’s actions were arbitrary and capricious and that th…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Duval Ranching Co. v. Glickman

3:95-cv-00038 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 1995

Closed Date: 2000

On January 20, 1995, plaintiffs, ranchers near Humboldt National Forest in Elko County, Nevada, filed this complaint in the District of Nevada against the United States, United States Forest Service, and individual federal officers. The complaint is unavailable, but according to the order granting summary judgment, the plaintiffs alleged violations of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), Bivens, and state law. Specifica…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Mason v. Lockwood

5:16-cv-10663 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2016

On February 18, 2016, a group of Flint, Michigan residents filed this class action lawsuit in the Michigan Circuit Court for the County of Genesee. The plaintiffs sued Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, P.C. and a related corporate entity under state law. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that Lockwood, a company that helped Flint switch its water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River, negligently caused Flint residents to be supplied with water contaminated by lead and other …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Kennedy v. City of Zanesville

2:03-cv-01047 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2003

Closed Date: April 2, 2009

On November 19, 2003, a group of Black residents of the City of Zanesville, in Muskingum County, Ohio, and the Fair Housing Advocates Association filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against the city of Zanesville ("City"), Washington Township ("Township"), Washington Township Trustees, and Muskingum County Commissioners ("County"). The plaintiffs, represented by public interest attorneys, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Lo v. County of Siskiyou

2:21-cv-00999 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: June 4, 2021

On June 4, 2021, six Hmong residents of Siskiyou County, California, represented by private counsel, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. The case was assigned to Chief District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller and Magistrate Judge Dennis M. Cota. The plaintiffs sued Siskiyou County, its sheriff, its county counsel, and its board members under 42 USC §1983 for violations of the Fourth Amendment's seizure clause and Fourteenth Amendment's equal …
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United States v. The City of Jackson, Mississippi

3:22-cv-00686 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Nov. 29, 2022

This is a case about unsafe public drinking water in Jackson, Mississippi. On November 29, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") filed a complaint against the city of Jackson, Mississippi ("the City"), on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The DOJ sued the city of Jackson under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Prior to this lawsuit, in February 2020, the EPA found infrastructure problems indicating t…
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DOJ Investigation of Alabama Department of Public Health

No docket (out of court) | No Court

In November 2021, during the Biden Administration, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) initiated this investigation into whether the Alabama Department of Public Health and the Lowndes County Health Department's (ADPH) wastewater disposal and management systems in Lowndes County violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, by discriminating against African American…

Administrative Matter Closed

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Center for Biological Diversity v. Office of Management and Budget

1:25-cv-00165 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2025

This case challenged the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the U.S. DOGE Service’s (DOGE, formerly the United States Digital Service) failure to disclose presidential transition records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). On January 20, 2025, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against OMB, DOGE, the DOGE Temporary Organization (DOGETO), Elon Musk (in his official capacity as head of DOGE), and Amy Gl…

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