Save The Colorado v. Spellmon, 50 F.4th 954 (10th Cir. 2022)

Sep 30, 2022

OUTCOME: Victory

Secured a major victory clarifying that litigants may pursue challenges to Clean Water Act Section 404 permits in federal district court, even where permit applicants must also separately obtain a lice ... nse from FERC under the Federal Power Act that can only be challenged in federal courts of appeal.

Monroe Cty. Bd. of Comm’rs v. U.S. Forest Serv., No. 4:20-cv-00106, 2022 WL 954933 (S.D. Ind. Mar. 30, 2022)

Mar 30, 2022

OUTCOME: Victory

Invalidated decision approving a U.S. Forest Service project to log and burn thousands of acres of the Hoosier National Forest due to failure to take a hard look at environmental impacts under NEPA.

National Parks Conservation Association v. Semonite, 916 F.3d 1075 (D.C. Cir. 2019)

Mar 01, 2019

OUTCOME: Won appeal on issue of first impression under the National Environmental Policy Act

AWHC v. U.S. Department of the Interior (D. Wyo. Jan. 9, 2019)

Jan 09, 2019

OUTCOME: Prevailed in challenge to BLM's new approach to removing wild horses from public lands

Front Range Nesting Bald Eagle Studies v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2018 WL 6571390 (D. Colo. Dec. 13, 2018)

Dec 13, 2018

OUTCOME: Overturned Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act permit

Western Watersheds Project v. Christiansen, 348 F. Supp. 3d 1204 (D. Wyo. 2018)

Sep 14, 2018

OUTCOME: Invalidated Forest Service's artificial feeding of the Jackson elk herd

AWHPC v. Zinke, 2017 WL 4349012 (D. Idaho Sept. 29, 2017)

Sep 29, 2017

OUTCOME: Successfully vacated BLM's Jarbidge Resource Management Plan (co-counsel)

AWHPC v. Perdue, 873 F.3d 914 (D.C. Cir. 2017)

Sep 29, 2017

OUTCOME: Successfully obtained reversal of district court ruling on appeal

After the district court denied summary judgment for my nonprofit clients, I successfully obtain reversal of that decision by a unanimous panel of the D.C. Circuit. At issue in the case was whether th ... e U.S. Forest Service could modify the boundaries of a national forest to eliminate nearly 30,000 acres from a longstanding use by wildlife and the public, without providing any coherent explanation for the policy change or analyzing it under the National Environmental Policy Act.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Vilsack, 276 F. Supp. 3d 1015 (D. Nev. 2017)

Aug 01, 2017

OUTCOME: Obtained precedent-setting Endangered Species Act victory

I obtained a ruling establishing the principle that federal agencies must comply with section 7(a)(1) of the Endangered Species Act even where an agency is no longer taking any affirmative action, but ... nevertheless there are still ongoing effects from the agency's terminated action that are adversely impacting endangered species and their formally designated critical habitat.

Nevada Association of Counties v. U.S. Department of the Interior, 696 Fed. Appx. 407 (9th Cir. 2017)

Apr 03, 2017

OUTCOME: Obtained dismissal from Ninth Circuit after prevailing in district court lawsuit on wildlife issues