Environmental & Energy,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Dec. 22, 2023
The 9th Circuit's Top 10 Environmental Law Decisions of 2023
The Ninth Circuit is the second most influential court in the nation when it comes to environmental law and policy, behind only the U.S. Supreme Court.
Richard M. Frank
Professor of Environmental Practice, UC Davis School of Law
Richard is director of the California Environmental Law & Policy Center at the UC Davis School of Law.
In 2023 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit continued its strong focus on environmental law. As it has for the past three decades, this year the Ninth Circuit issued approximately 50 published decisions encompassing a wide array of environmental and natural resource topics. That prodigious output, along with the many consequential issues the Court confronted in 2023, makes the Ninth Circuit the second most influential court in the nation when it comes to ...