EAJA Awards
| Agency | Agency subcomponent | Name | Award date | Award amount | Awardees | Claims description | Finding basis | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Homeland Security | USCIS | Arguijo v. USCIS |
$ 146,111
|
REDACTED | Challenge to the denial of a visa petition. | Settlement-stipulation of the parties | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Homeland Security | USCIS | Arguijo v. USCIS |
$ 146,111
|
REDACTED | Challenge to the denial of a visa petition. | Settlement-stipulation of the parties | Show | |
| U.S. Department of the Interior | Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) | AquAlliance v. BOR |
$ 145,000
|
Aqua Terra Aeris Law Group / Jason Flanders | Plaintiffs challenged Defendants' "10-year water transfer program to move water from sellers located upstream of the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta to willing buyers south of the Delta". | Not Provided | Show | |
| U.S. Department of the Interior | Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) | Wildearth Guardians v. Hoover (Furbearer CITES and ESA sec 7 consultation Lynx Incidental Take Statement) |
$ 145,000
|
Wildearth Guardians, Peter M.K. Frost, Matthew K. Bishop, and Sarah McMillan | Plaintiff’s lawsuit alleges violations of the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) and the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) related to Federal Defendants’ actions to implement the 1973 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (“CITES”). | Lost on ESA sec 7 claim, no clear trigger for reinitiation of consultation | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Justice | Office of Justice Programs | City of Chicago v. Merrick Garland, Attorney General |
$ 145,000
|
City of Chicago | Plaintiff challenged certain immigration-related conditions imposed by DOJ on the FY 2018 Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) grant program. | Settlement agreement | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Agriculture | Forest Service (USFS) | Wildearth Guardians, Oregon Wild; Sierra Club, Great Old Broads for Wilderness v. Jeffries (WGE); Oregon Hunters Association v. USFS (OHA); Central Oregon LandWatch v. Jeffries (COWL) - Consolidated Cases |
$ 145,000
|
Wildearth Guardians, Oregon Hunters Association, Central Oregon LandWatch | NEPA, NFMA, ESA | Settlement | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Agriculture | Forest Service | Western Watersheds Project v. Christensen | Null |
$ 145,000
|
Eubanks & Associates | APA | Settlement of EAJA | Show |
| U.S. Department of Justice | U.S. Marshals Service (subcomponent of DOJ) and U.S. Department... | Western States Center, Inc., et al. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, et al. |
$ 144,043
|
Attorneys for Western States Center, Inc., First Unitarian Church of Portland, Oregon, Sara D. Eddie, Representative Janelle S Bynum, and Representative Karin A. Power | Plaintiffs were granted a preliminary injunction on First Amendment grounds related to protest activity around the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, which was vacated 1.5 weeks later. They had asserted retaliatory intent by the administration. The case was later dismissed on mootness grounds after the administration changed. | The judge found that tweets and public statements from President Donald Trump and Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf supported an inference that the government's law enforcement activities were conducted with retaliatory intent. | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Homeland Security | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | REDACTED v. DHS |
$ 143,670
|
REDACTED | Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus under 28 U.S.C. 2241 and Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 (Constitutional claims). District court provisionally certified a class of detained noncitizens and enjoined ICE from transferring these detainees to facilities outside of the AOR. | Court found Government not substantially justified in moving detainees outside the AOR and away from their attorneys. | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Agriculture | Forest Service (USFS) | Conservation Congress v Forest Service and United States Fish and Wildlife Service |
$ 140,000
|
Conservation Congress | NEPA, NFMA, ESA | Settlement | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Justice | Executive Office of Immigration Review | Mendez Rojas v. Wolf |
$ 138,019
|
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project | Habeas/prolonged detention | Settlement agreement | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Homeland Security | USCIS | Mendez Rojas v. Johnson |
$ 138,019
|
REDACTED | Class action challenging government’s alleged lack of adequate notice to asylum seekers regarding the statutory one year deadline to file an asylum application after entering the United States, and alleging that the government failed to provide a mechanism for certain class members to timely file for asylum. | Plaintiff was the prevailing party whose position was substantially justified. | Show | |
| U.S. Department of the Interior | Fish and Wildlife Service | Rocky Mountain Wild, San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council, San Juan Citizens Alliance, Wilderness Work (Wolf Creek) |
$ 137,500
|
Travis Stills and Matthew Sandler | Plaintiffs sued the USFS and FWS for a land exhanged alleging NEPA, ESA, APA, and NFMA claims. Plaintiffs alleged a violation under ESA section 7 for the consultation on Canada lynx. The court ruled in favor of the Plaintiffs and the land exhange with the applicants was unwound. The USFS granted applicants access under ANILCA and the Plaintiffs sued again. The USFS and FWS settled the fees. | The court ruled against the USFS and FWS on ESA and NEPA claims. The US dismissed its appeal and the USFS selected a different action. | Show | |
| Other Agency | Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) | Sierra Club v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
$ 136,230
|
Flint Riverkeeper and Chattahoochee Riverkeeper | The fee award arose from the Court's determination that the Commission violated NEPA by failing to calculate and consider the environmental effects of emissions stemming from the end use of the natural gas transported on a FERC-jurisdictional pipeline. | The Court found that the Commission's position that NEPA did not require the calculation and consideration of end use emissions was not substantially justified. | Show | |
| U.S. Department of Homeland Security | U.S. Customs and Border Protection | R. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy, et al. v. Mayorkas, et al. |
$ 135,400
|
REDACTED | Class action challenging the Secretary of DHS' February 5, 2020 Decision to prohibit residents of New York State from applying or re-applying for membership in CBP's Trusted Traveler Programs under the Administrative Procedure Act and the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constituion. | Settlement Agreement | Show |