Florida Key Deer v. Paulison

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that consultation under ESA was required because the statutory scheme where FEMA managed its own flood insurance program “b[ore] little resemblance to the scheme in [Home Builders], where no discretion was found”
• protecting the Key Largo cotton mouse, Key Deer, Key Largo woodrat, Lower Keys marsh rabbit, Schaus’ swallowtail butterfly, silver rice rat, Stock Island tree snail, and Key tree-cactus
• “settled” that court may enjoin agency from “further noncompliant action pending satisfaction” of the ESA
• “If [one agency’s opinion is] arbitrary and capricious, an[other] agency’s decision to adopt [it] is likewise arbitrary and capricious and may be challenged.”
• “Another agency’s reliance on that opinion will satisfy its obligations . . . if a challenging party can point to no ‘new’ information, i.e., information the [agency] did not take into account — which challenges the opinion’s conclusions.”
• “‘otherwise improve’ land management and use”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).