Legal Opinion
Carpenters Industrial Council v. Ryan Zinke
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided April 11, 2017No. 15-5304 Consolidated with 15-5334PublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAVANAUGH, Circuit Judge:
When the Government adopts a rule that makes it more difficult to harvest timber from certain forest lands, lumber companies that obtain timber from those forest lands may lose a source of timber supply and suffer economic harm. In recent years, that phenomenon has occurred in the Pacific Northwest. In this case, a lumber industry group has contested one such government action.
In 2012, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a Final Rule designating 9.5 million acres of federal forest lands in California, Oregon, and Washington as critical habitat for the northern…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Melvin Wallace v. ConAgra Foods, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2014
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