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Survey Of Seqra Cases From 2007, Michael B. Gerrard
Survey Of Seqra Cases From 2007, Michael B. Gerrard
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The courts issued 58 decisions under the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) in 2007.
Typically, plaintiffs have a much greater chance of success in SEQRA cases when no environmental impact statement (EIS) has been prepared: on average, in the cases from 1990 (when this column’s annual survey began) through 2006, plaintiffs won 15.9 percent of the cases where there is an EIS, and 38.6 percent of the cases without an EIS.
But in 2007 the ratio was much different. In the 22 cases with an EIS, plaintiffs won seven, or 31.8 percent. In the 27 cases without …