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Before the Court are the following motions: Defendants Donald J. Trump, Ryan Zinke, and Wilbur Ross’s Motion to Dismiss at Docket 12; Intervenor-Defendant American Petroleum Institute’s Motion to Dismiss at Docket 25; and Intervenor-Defendant State of Alaska’s Motion to Dismiss at Docket 34. The motions have been fully briefed. Oral argument on the motions was held on November 8, 2017. For the following reasons, the motions will be denied.
U.S. District Judge Ramona Manglona refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging U.S. Navy plans for the Marine Corps to conduct live-fire training in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. In a decision issued in Saipan, Judge Manglona said the lawsuit questioning whether the Navy failed to consider all the impacts associated with the plan to transfer 5,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam and begin staging massive, live-fire war games on the islands of Pågan and Tinian can proceed.
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Earthjustice attorney Jan Hasselman, lead counsel to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their litigation, discusses the historic legal case and what lies ahead.
In 1971, Phil Berry, Fred Fisher, and Don Harris founded the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (as Earthjustice was then known), dedicated to fighting in court and in Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Sierra Club and other environmental groups.
Plaintiffs’ Combined Memorandum Of Law In Opposition To Fisheries Service Defendants’ Motion To Dismiss Counts One And Two And Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Defendants’ Motion To Dismiss Count Three
As part of our work to preserve biodiversity, Earthjustice has mounted a series of legal challenges to protect vulnerable shark species from industrial fishing.
THE SUPREME COURT JUST ATTACKED THE CLEAN WATER ACT
The U.S. Supreme Court stripped protections from at least half of our 118 million acres of wetlands. Help us fight back.