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WildEarth Guardians v. Bernhardt

Geography
🇺🇸 United States / California
Year
2019
Document Type
Litigation
Part of
WildEarth Guardians v. Bernhardt

About this case

Filing year
2019
Status
Plaintiff filed voluntary dismissal.
Geography
🇺🇸 United States → California
Docket number
2:19-CV-7025
Court/admin entity
United States → United States Federal Courts → United States District Court for the Eastern District of California (E.D. Cal.)
Case category
Federal Statutory Claims (US) → Endangered Species Act and Other Wildlife Protection Statutes (US)
Principal law
United States → Endangered Species Act (ESA)
At issue
Lawsuit to compel response to list the Joshua tree as a threatened species.
Topics
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Documents

Filing Date
Document
Type
Topics 
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08/15/2019
Plaintiff filed voluntary dismissal.
On August 15, 2019, WildEarth Guardians voluntarily dismissed a lawsuit it had filed only two days earlier to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to make a 12-month finding on a petition to list the Joshua tree as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. WildEarth Guardians submitted the petition in September 2015, and FWS issued a positive 90-day finding in September 2016. On August 14, 2019, FWS issued a <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-08-15/pdf/2019-17536.pdf">determination</a> that listing was not warranted. The August 13 complaint alleged that climate change and drought threatened to “completely eradicate” the Joshua tree by 2100.
Notice Of Voluntary Dismissal
08/13/2019
Complaint filed.
Complaint

Summary

Lawsuit to compel response to list the Joshua tree as a threatened species.

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Group
Topics
Policy instrument
Risk
Adaptation/resilience
Finance