EAJA Awards
| Agency | Agency subcomponent | Name | Award date | Award amount | Awardees | Claims description | Finding basis | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Agriculture | Null | Citizens for Healthy Communities, et al. v. USDOI, USBLM, and USFS |
$ 17,179
|
Citizens for a Healthy Community, High Country Conservation Advocates, Wilderness Workshop, Center for Biological Diversity, and Wildearth Guardians | NEPA, APA | Null | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Agriculture | Farm Service Agency | In the Matter of McCarty Farms Partnership and Farm Service Agency, National Appeals Division |
$ 20,977
|
McCarty Farms Partnership | NAD | Null | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Agriculture | Farm Service Agency | Dakota Rural Action, et al. v. U.S. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
$ 88,300
|
Animal Legal Defense Fund | NEPA | Null | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Agriculture | Null | Monroe County Board of Commissioners, et al. v. U.S. Forest Service |
$ 70,000
|
Monroe County Board of Commissioners | APA | Null | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Agriculture | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service | Organic Sphere v. USDA |
$ 10,000
|
Organic Sphere, LLC | Action for damages under the Plant Protection Act, 7 U.S.C. § 7716, for recovery of compensation for unauthorized activities | Null | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Agriculture | Null | Denice Rice |
$ 33,051
|
Denice Rice | EEOC | Null | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Agriculture | Farm Production and Conservation | Elbert v. U.S. Dep't of Agriculture |
$ 258,064
|
Rich Elbert | APA | Null | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Agriculture | Farm Production and Conservation | Ackerman Bros. Farms, LLC v. U.S. Dep't of Agriculture |
$ 133,092
|
Ackerman Brothers Farms, LLC | APA | Null | Show | |
| U.S. Department of the Interior | Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) | Fletcher, et al. v. United States |
$ 34,840
|
William Fletcher | Complaint contained four claims: (1) that the government’s regulations violated their First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to vote in Osage tribal elections and to participate in the Osage Tribe’s government; (2) that the government breached its trust responsibilities by (a) eliminating plaintiffs’ right to participate or vote in Osage tribal elections, and (b) allowing headrights to be alienated to persons not of Osage blood; (3) that the government’s failure to manage the Tribe’s assets, coupled with the government’s inability to keep Osage headrights from passing into the hands of those who are not of Osage blood, constituted a Fifth Amendment taking; and (4) that federal regulations restricting plaintiffs’ right to participate in tribal government constituted illegal agency action pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act, 5 U.S.C. § 706. | Request for fees denied. Court awarded costs because Plaintiff was a prevailing party and the "substantially justified" criteria doesn't apply to costs. Plaintiffs have appealed to the 10th Circuit. | Show | |
| U.S. Department of the Interior | Bureau of Indian Education | Dine Bi' Olta School Board Association v. DOI |
$ 42,000
|
Frye & Kelly PC | Plaintiff comprised of local school boards of federally funded schools throughout Navajo Nation sought the release of records related to the operation and structures of the BIE and any plans for a reorganization under FOIA. | FOIA non-response | Show | |
| U.S. Department of the Interior | Bureau of Land Management (BLM) | Dine Citizens Against Ruining the Environment v. Bernhardt |
$ 791,710
|
Kyle Tisdel | Plaintiffs alleged violations of the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”), 42 U.S. C. §§ 4321 et seq., and its implementing regulations, made reviewable pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”), 5 U.S.C. §701 et seq. Plaintiffs filed a motion for preliminary injunction on May 11, 2015. | The Tenth Circuit vacated certain oil and gas drilling decisions of the BLM for failure to comply with NEPA. | Show | |
| U.S. Department of the Interior | Bureau of Land Management (BLM) | Friends of Animals v. BLM (Three Fingers) |
$ 56,012
|
Friends of Animals, Inc. | Relates to wild horses and Oregon’s Three Fingers Herd Management Area | Court ruled for plaintiff on merits, and the parties settled the plaintiff's fees request. | Show | |
| U.S. Department of the Interior | Bureau of Land Management (BLM) | Ginger Kathrens and the Cloud Foundation v. Bernhardt |
$ 45,000
|
Meyer, Glitzenstein & Eubanks, LLP | Complaint alleging that Federal Defendants violated the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, the Administrative Procedures Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act. | TRO granted, BLM enjoined from proceeding. BLM has withdrawn DR. | Show | |
| U.S. Department of the Interior | Bureau of Land Management (BLM) | Native Ecosystems Council and Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. BLM |
$ 100,000
|
Akland Law Firm, PLLC | Complaint alleging that Defendants violated the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, the Administrative Procedures Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act in issuing the Decision Record, Iron Mask Planning Area Environmental Assessment, Decision Record for Vegetation and Riparian Treatments, Iron Mask Planning Area Environmental Assessment, and Final Grazing Decision and Response to Protest - Indian Creek Forage Reserve. | The court granted Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment in part finding that BLM's cumulative impacts analysis did not comply with NEPA. The court remanded the matter for the BLM to conduct supplemental NEPA. | Show | |
| U.S. Department of the Interior | Bureau of Land Management (BLM) | San Juan Citizens Alliance v. BLM |
$ 72,000
|
Kyle J. Tisdel | Plaintiffs filed this lawsuit to challenge BLM’s authorization and issuance of 13 oil and gas lease parcels covering 20,146.67 acres of land administered by the Forest Service in the Santa Fe National Forest, with the subsurface mineral estate administered by BLM’s Farmington Field Office (“FFO”). | Agency found to be arbitrary and capricious in failing to ensure adequate analysis | Show |