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Federal Court Finds Swampbuster Constitutional

National Law Center

The plaintiff in the case was a limited liability company that owned 1,075 acres of farmland in Iowa, including nine acres that were designated as “wetland” by USDA in 2010 prior to the plaintiff’s purchase of the land. Iowa, May 29, 2025) was initially filed by a landowner in Iowa on April 16, 2024.

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One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Nutrition Title

National Law Center

For example, reconciliation was used to pass the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, and the Inflation Reduction Act in 2021. Because of this, reconciliation is most often used to pass partisan policy priorities when one party has a majority in both chambers of Congress and the White House.

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Challenge to California’s Hen Housing Laws

National Law Center

In 2010, the California legislature followed with AB 1437 , a law that imposes those Prop 2 living conditions on egg producers in any other state or country that intended to sell their products in the state of California.

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How the Endangered Species Act is Helping to Restore the Klamath River Basin

Vermont Law

Ever increasing water use, and severe drought conditions, brought conflicts over water use to a head in the early 2000s when water conservation measures were taken in order to protect several fish listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Three KRB fish species are especially significant from an environmental perspective.

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Service Lists Franklin’s Bumble Bee as Endangered Species

Endangered Species Law

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) recently listed the Franklin’s bumble bee as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. Historical records indicate that the species is endemic to southwest Oregon and northern California. The last known record of the species dates back to 2006.

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The Dusky Gopher Frog Causes Big Problems for Industrial and Commercial Development in Parts of St. Tammany Parish

The Energy Law

In 2010, under the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“the FWS”) designated 6,477 acres in Mississippi and Louisiana as “critical habitat” for the Rana sevosa or the dusky gopher frog. United States Fish & Wildlife Serv. 2016 WL 3568093, at *1-2 (5th Cir. June 30, 2016).

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Beringia distinct population segment (DPS) of the Pacific bearded seal subspecies as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The plaintiffs charged that the U.S.