Updates to our Terms of Use

We are updating our Terms of Use. Please carefully review the updated Terms before proceeding to our website.

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

View Back issues

Oil leases paused again

NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit undid a Louisiana federal court’s nationwide injunction that had halted the secretary of the interior from pausing the sale of new oil and gas leases on public lands and offshore waters. The lower court’s order and memorandum lacked specificity, e.g. when defining what “the pause” is, so it is vacated.

Read the ruling here.

Categories / Appeals, Briefs, Environment

Subscribe to our free newsletters

Our weekly newsletter Closing Arguments offers the latest about ongoing trials, major litigation and rulings in courthouses around the U.S. and the world, while the monthly Under the Lights dishes the legal dirt from Hollywood, sports, Big Tech and the arts.

Loading...