National Wildlife Refuge Association v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

The court dismissed the case with prejudice pursuant to a joint stipulation by the parties. Bloomberg Law <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/georgia-advances-titanium-mine-on-edge-of-embattled-okefenokee">reported</a> that the plaintiffs' counsel said they dismissed the case because it was rendered moot by the U.S. Supreme Court's Sackett v. EPA decision regarding the scope of "waters of the United States."

The federal district court for the District of Columbia granted a motion by the developer of a heavy mineral-sands mine in Georgia to transfer a case challenging jurisdictional determinations for the project to the Southern District of Georgia. The court found that venue was proper in the Southern District of Georgia and that the interests of convenience and justice supported transfer. The court found that the challenge to the mine was “an intensely local controversy” and that the localized interests were “preeminent.”

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