SCOTUSBlog Petition of the Day: Michigan v. U.S. Army Corps

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The petition of the day is:

Michigan v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Docket: 11-541
Issue(s): (1) Whether a request for multiple types of preliminary injunctive relief requires a balancing of harms with respect to each form of relief requested; and (2) whether a party’s statement that it is “considering” implementing the relief requested in a motion for injunction is a ground for denying the injunction.

Certiorari stage documents:

Michigan v. United States Army Corps of Engineers Cert Petition (Asian Carp)

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Asian Carp Cert Pet_10 26 2011

Questions presented:

This multi-sovereign dispute involves the imminent invasion of Asian carp into the Great Lakes ecosystem. Although the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that catastrophic harm has a “good” or “perhaps even a substantial” likelihood of occurring, Pet. App. 4a–5a, it affirmed the district court’s denial of even the plaintiffs’ most modest requests for injunctive relief. The Seventh Circuit’s opinion raises two questions for this Court’s review:

1. Whether a request for multiple types of preliminary-injunctive relief requires a balancing of harms with respect to each form of relief requested.

2. Whether a party’s statement that it is “considering” implementing the relief requested in a motion for injunction is a ground for denying the injunction.

Seventh Circuit decision here.