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Where the book uses it

• Chapter 9 — The Price of Permission

  Who gets to say yes or no to a campus: counties, air regulators, courts and legislatures, and what their permits, abatements and refusals cost in time and money.

Where the record uses it

• Person Tipton, Robert, Jr

Sources that use it

• Declarations of six Southaven-area residents, Exhibits B to G to the plaintiffs’ renewed motion for a preliminary injunction (Dkt. 51-37 to 51-42), NAACP v. X.AI Corp., No. 3:26-cv-00074-DMB-JMV (N.D. Miss.), filed 12 June 2026 (Exhibit D (Dkt 51-39): Stephanie Norvell, a 64-year-old seamstress 0.78 miles from the turbines, the home owned with her husband and lived in since 2009, she a two-time cancer survivor, he a prostate-cancer survivor — “sometimes I can only hear the turbines and nothing else”; “This neighborhood was not loud before the turbines started operating”; Exhibit E (Dkt 51-40): a registered nurse renting less than a mile away — “I can hear them from my bed with the windows closed”; sleeps with earplugs; and, at paragraph 22, “Unfortunately, and in large part because of xAI’s turbines, I have decided not to renew my lease when it runs out at the end of April” — she swore she had decided to move to the other end of DeSoto County; Exhibit F (Dkt 51-41): a roofing-manufacturer worker, garage with “two high quality wooden rocking chairs,” now keeps the door closed, “about four hours of sleep a night” with the television on; Exhibit G (Dkt 51-42): Robert Tipton Jr., President of the DeSoto County Chapter of the NAACP, Army veteran, home he built on three acres in Nesbit, sarcoidosis in his lungs that paragraph 8 says is “in hibernation” and monitored — “Before the turbines started operating, I didn’t hear anything official from the company or the federal or Mississippi government”; paragraph 3 of the Millsap declarations puts their home “about five and a half miles” from the turbines; on the Millsaps’ outdoor life, Exhibit B (Dkt 51-37), Adrian Millsap at paragraph 7: six grills “because we like to cook out so much”, and at paragraph 9 an Easter Egg hunt for “co-workers, church kids, and our great nieces and nephews” (PDF page 3 of 6); on her health, Exhibit C (Dkt 51-38), Tiffany Millsap at paragraph 13: “more respiratory problems since moving to the Memphis area than I ever had in Michigan or Texas” (PDF page 4 of 5)). In the Sources
• NAACP and NAACP Mississippi State Conference v. X.AI Corp. and MZX Tech LLC, No. 3:26-cv-00074-DMB-JMV (N.D. Miss., Oxford Division), Opinion and Order denying the defendants’ motion to dismiss, ECF 139, 30 October 2026, Judge Debra M. Brown (on the complaint’s allegations taken as true: “Because the plaintiffs have statutory standing under the Clean Air Act, because the combustion turbines are not “mobile sources” under Mississippi’s SIP, and because the citizen suit provision does not violate Article II of the Constitution,” the motion is denied; the turbines are “stationary combustion turbines” subject to standards of performance under section 111 of the Act; the order finds no violation and grants no injunction) In the Sources
• NAACP v. X.AI Corp. and MZX Tech LLC, No. 3:26-cv-00074-DMB-JMV (N.D. Miss.), opinion and order, ECF 135, District Judge Debra M. Brown, signed and filed 19 October 2026 (the court’s ruling on the United States’ amended motion to intervene and dismiss, entry 85, granted as to intervention and denied in all other respects, with five other motions, among them the government’s for a stay and for a written order, denied as moot, and nothing in it ruling on the preliminary injunction or on whether the defendants’ turbines are lawful; “the United States will be allowed to intervene but will not be allowed to dismiss this case”; “The motion is GRANTED to the extent the United States is allowed to intervene. The motion is DENIED in all other respects.”; “nothing in the Clean Air Act allows the Administrator to unilaterally dismiss a citizen suit upon intervention”; “Accordingly, the Court will not consider the United States’ reasons for dismissal and the plaintiffs’ challenges to those reasons.”; footnote 6: “the Court does not consider the United States’ national security concerns relevant and thus will not require additional briefing on that topic.”; on the status conference of 24 August, at which the court stated that it “intend[s] to deny” the amended motion: “That statement is not (and was not then) an order.”; “The notice of appeal was therefore premature such that this Court’s jurisdiction over the Amended Motion to Intervene/Dismiss was not altered by its filing.”; “The pending Motion to Intervene/Dismiss [58], Motion to Strike [82], Written Order Motion [117], Stay Motion [124], and Transcripts Motion [131] are DENIED as moot.”; footnote 3, the order’s account of the Fifth Circuit’s order denying the United States’ motion of 9 October to stay the litigation pending its appeal, in which the Fifth Circuit recognized that the district court “has not fully determined this issue”, that order known only from this footnote and footnote 10; “The only purpose the United States identifies for its intervention is to voluntarily dismiss this case.”; the United States to file a pleading under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(c) “No later than October 23, 2026, to the extent the United States wants to participate in this litigation”; footnote 12: “If the United States files a Rule 24(c) pleading that requires a response, any such response must be filed no later than October 30, 2026.”; footnote 11, on the defendants’ motion of 15 June to dismiss, entry 54, and their joint motion of 19 June, entry 72: “Those motions will be addressed by separate order.”; the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction, entry 51 of 12 June, appears only in the order’s procedural history, with no ruling and no hearing set; the caption, “OXFORD DIVISION”; a second copy, Earthjustice’s as the plaintiffs’ counsel, carries the same text on all 22 pages; the RECAP copy read in full, 23 October 2026) In the Sources
• NAACP v. X.AI Corp., N.D. Miss., Dkt. 42 (26 May 2026): “Evidentiary Motion Hearing set for 8/24/2026 09:30 AM in Greenville Courtroom 1 before District Judge Debra M. Brown”; Dkt. 112 (21 August 2026): hearing “continued until further notice.” In the Sources
• NAACP v. X.AI Corp., No. 3:26-cv-00074 (N.D. Miss.), plaintiffs’ preliminary-injunction brief, filed 6 May 2026 (summarizing six resident declarations, Exhibits B–G: the Norvells less than a mile from the turbines, cancer survivors; Khadijah Sheard, RN; Robert Tipton, DeSoto County NAACP president, sarcoidosis — counsel’s summaries with paragraph cites, not resident quotations; the signed declarations are cited separately, as Exhibits B to G to the renewed motion). In the Sources

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