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Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Geography
🇺🇸 United States / District of Columbia
Year
2018
Document Type
Litigation
Part of
Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

About this case

Filing year
2018
Status
Joint consent motion to voluntarily dismiss granted.
Geography
🇺🇸 United States → District of Columbia
Docket number
18-1224 et al.
Court/admin entity
United States → United States Federal Courts → United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C. Cir.)
Case category
Federal Statutory Claims (US) → NEPA (US)
Principal law
United States → National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
At issue
Challenge to approvals for natural gas pipeline project running through West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina.
Topics
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Documents

Filing Date
Document
Type
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11/18/2022
Joint consent motion to voluntarily dismiss granted.
Decision
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11/16/2022
Joint consent motion to voluntarily dismiss filed.
Petitioners requested dismissal in light of the announced cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline Project.
Motion To Dismiss
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08/15/2022
Status report filed requesting that petitions for review continue to be held in abeyance.
Status Report
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07/17/2020
Joint response filed by conservation petitioners and landowner petitioners withdrawing prior motion and consenting to hold cases in abeyance.
Response
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07/15/2020
Motion to govern further proceedings filed by Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC, and Dominion Energy Transmission, Inc.
Motion
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06/18/2020
Joint motion filed by conservation petitioners and landowner petitioners to remove cases from abeyance.
Motion
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01/27/2020
Letter filed by conservation petitioners regarding supplemental authority.
Letter
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10/04/2019
Letter filed by Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC and Dominion Energy Transmission, Inc. regarding granting of petitions for writ of certioriari for review of the Fourth Circuit decision vacating U.S. Forest Service approvals for Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
Letter
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10/04/2019
Court ordered that the cases be removed from the October 16, 2019 oral argument calendar and held in abeyance pending further order of the court; requests to stay denied without prejudice to renewal; parties directed to file motions to govern future proceedings within 30 days of Supreme Court's disposition of the Fourth Circuit cases.
Decision
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09/13/2019
Court ordered parties to file supplemental briefs.
Decision
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08/19/2019
Response filed by Wintergreen Petitioners to FERC's August 9, 2019 letter regarding supplemental authority.
Letter
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08/13/2019
Letter filed by Conservation Petitioners in response to FERC's August 9, 2019 letter regarding supplemental authority.
Letter
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07/10/2019
Joint reply brief filed by conservation petitioners and landowner petitioners.
Reply
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07/10/2019
Reply brief filed by petitioner North Carolina Utilities Commission.
Reply
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06/26/2019
Brief filed by intervenors Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC, Dominion Energy Transmission, Inc., and Independent Oil & Gas Association of West Virginia, Inc.
Brief
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06/18/2019
Brief filed by FERC.
Brief
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04/12/2019
Amicus brief filed by Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law in support of conservation petitioners.
Amicus Motion/Brief
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04/05/2019
Joint opening brief filed by conservation petitioners and landowner petitioners.
Brief
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12/28/2018
Motion to transfer denied.
Decision
–
10/15/2018
Motion to transfer filed by conservation groups.
Motion
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Summary

Challenge to approvals for natural gas pipeline project running through West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina.

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