Protect Our Parks, Inc., et al. v. Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation, et al.

The questions presented are:

1. Whether the Obama Presidential Center project (the “OPC”), which includes four structures constructed over 19.3 acres of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Jackson Park, located next to Lake Michigan, is a major federal action under the federal environmental laws when the roadwork required because of the destruction and alteration of its internal roadwork, necessitated by that construction, is federally funded?

2. Whether a federal court can properly defer to a federal agency’s narrow, unsupported and KLJKO\ GHIHUHQWLDO GHÀQLWLRQ RI D PDMRU SURMHFW escapes review under this Court’s recent decision in Loper Bright v. Riamondo (2024) and its well-established decision in Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe (1971)?

3. Whether the federal reviews of the OPC relied upon below employed illegal segmentation to allow large portions of the undertaking to escape federal review under the NEPA, the Transportation Act and other federal statutes, ZKLFKFRQÁLFWVZLWKWKHHVWDEOLVKHGLQWHUSUHWLYH principles used in the D.C. Circuit?

4. Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in deferring to the federal agencies who either ignored or belittled the destruction of hundreds of trees, migratory bird habitats, and other