Legal Opinion
Organized Village of Kake v. United States Department of Agriculture
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 26, 2014No. 11-35517PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge BEA; Dissent by Judge McKEOWN.
OPINION
BEA, Circuit Judge:
When a federal agency decides to change its rules to allow roads to be built through a federal forest it had previously ruled be preserved roadless, what reasons are sufficient to justify that change?
The United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) decided to change its rules to allow roads to be built through an Alaskan forest the USDA had previously ruled should be preserved roadless. We are called on to determine whether the USDA’s stated reasons for its change to such rules were sufficient, and the rule change…
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