In September 2007, John Sturgeon was operating a state-registered hovercraft to access moose-hunting grounds surrounding the Nation River in the Yukon-Charley National Preserve in Alaska. Sturgeon v. Masica, 768 F.3d 1066, 1070 (9th Cir. 2014)....
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In 2011, John Sturgeon was moose hunting in Alaska when the National Park Service (“NPS”) informed him that he could not use his hovercraft on the Nation River within the Yukon-Charley preservation. Sturgeon v. Masica, No. 3:11-cv-0183-HRH, 2013 WL...
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Hawkes Co., Inc., is a mining company that excavates peat from wetland areas in Minnesota. Hawkes wanted to expand its operations to wetlands near its current operations. See Hawkes v. United States Army of Eng’rs, 782 F.3d 994, 998 (8th Cir. 2015)....
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In 2012 and 2013, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) consulted with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (collectively, the “Services”) to determine whether proposed regulations for cooling water intake...
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Arthrex Inc. (“Arthrex”), a medical device company, owned the ’907 patent over a surgical assembly used to repair bone tissue. United States v. Arthrex Inc. at 1325. In 2018, Smith & Nephew, Inc. filed a petition for inter partes review of the...
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In 1978, Congress passed a law taxing coal exports from United States mines. Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Company v. United States, 473 F.3d 1373, 1374 (Fed. Cir. 2007); 26 U.S.C. § 4121(a)(2). Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Company, Gatliff Coal Company, and...
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The Respondents, Joseph Olson and Javier Vargas, were injured on January 31, 2000 while working at the Mission Mine, an underground copper mine operated by ASARCO, Inc., in Sahuarito, Arizona. Brief for Respondents at 1, United States v. Olson, U.S. (...
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The dusky gopher frog is an endangered species whose population once spread across forests from Louisiana to Alabama. Markle Interests, L.L.C. v. United States Fish & Wildlife Serv., 827 F.3d 452, 458 (5th Cir. 2016). However, habitat degradation...
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Petitioner Terry Whitman ("Whitman") was employed as an air traffic controller at the Federal Aviation Administration's ("FAA") Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center. Brief of the Petitioner at 8-9. As part of his employment, under...
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The Zuni Public School District (“Zuni”) is located almost entirely within Zuni and Navajo Reservation lands in New Mexico. Brief for Petitioner at 2. The Federal Impact Aid Act provides subsidies to Zuni as well as other school districts located on...