The Endangered Species Act This paper will discu

The ESA authorizes suits brought citizens under certain conditions. First, such suits may only be filed for the following purposes: (a) to enjoin any person from further violating the provisions of the ESA; (b) to compel the Secretary of the Interior to apply the provisions of the ESA regarding the taking of any resident endangered species or threatened species; and (c) to allege a failure on the part of the Secretary of the Interior to perform any act or duty under Section 1533 of the ESA. Second, such actions cannot be commenced if any of the following acts has occurred: (a) sixty days have not passed since a written notice of the violation has been given to the Secretary of the Interior and any alleged violator; (b) the Secretary has commenced an action to impose a penalty; or (c) the United States has commenced and is diligently prosecuting a criminal action in a state or federa

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y Act does not require that the plaintiff's interests align with the express purposes of the statute. The Efficacy of Citizen Suits The citizen suit provisions of the Endangered Species Act are not unique in the realm of environmental laws. As noted above, the language of these ESA provisions is virtually identical to that contained in several other environmental law statutes. Consequently, when one attempts to ascertain the efficacy of these ESA provisions, it helps to look at the analysis of such provisions in other environmental statutes. The analysis of these other statutes applies equally well to the ESA. The fact that several federal statutes provide for citizen suits in addition to more traditional actions by federal agencies does not mean that such suits are universally considered desirable. Such suits fly in the face of traditional notions of standing and many believe that they pave the way for never-ending legal battles. Private entities covered by the statute in question are vulnerable to any number of actions filed by other private entities who otherwise have no legal position in the statutory framework. The most diligent efforts at statutory compliance may be for naught when an entity which has no authorit
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