RECENT FEDERAL DECISIONS

March 2010

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Ninth Circuit Finds Written Comments Challenging a Pesticide Registration Decision Meets FIFRA ‘Public Hearing’ Requirement
United Farm Workers of America v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ___F.3d___

Plaintiffs appealed from a District Court order dismissing their complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Plaintiffs filed a complaint challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to schedule a gradual phase out of a pesticide called azinphos-methyl (AZM), pursuant to EPA’s authority under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).