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Documents
Filing Date
Type
Action Taken
Document
Summary
11/14/2023
Decision
Intervenors' appeal dismissed and preliminary injunction amended only to extent of setting new deadline.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that four conservation groups lacked standing to appeal a preliminary injunction that ordered the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to hold a specific oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico that the Inflation Reduction Act required BOEM to hold by September 30, 2023. The State of Louisiana, the American Petroleum Institute, and two fossil fuel companies challenged BOEM’s decision to add restrictions to the terms of the lease sale to protect the endangered Rice’s whale. The Fifth Circuit found that the alleged injury to the conservation groups’ members depended on a “highly attenuated chain of possibilities” that was “insufficient to show injury in fact.” The Fifth Circuit additionally found that the groups failed to show that a favorable decision would redress the alleged injury. The Fifth Circuit ordered BOEM to conduct the sale in 37 days, which was the time BOEM said was required to provide notice of the sale in the Federal Register.
11/09/2023
Letter
Letter filed by appellees regarding recent National Marine Fisheries Service decision.
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09/23/2023
Letter
Letter filed by Department of Justice regarding steps take in response to district court's order.
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09/22/2023
Motion
Emergency motion for stay pending appeal filed by intervenor-defendant-appellants.
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09/22/2023
Motion
Opposed emergency motion filed by federal defendants for partial stay pending appeal and immediate partial administrative stay.
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Summary
Challenge to the U.S. Department of the Interior’s decision to hold Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale 261.