Legal Opinion
Norton v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 14, 2004No. 03-101PublishedCited by 1,538 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scalia
In this case, we must decide whether the authority of a federal court under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) to “compel agency action unlawfully withheld or unreasonably delayed,” 5 U. S. C. § 706(1), extends to the review of the United States Bureau of Land Management’s stewardship of public lands under certain statutory provisions and its own planning documents.
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Almost half the State of Utah, about 23 million acres, is federal land administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency within the Department of Interior. For nearly 30 years, BLM’s management of public lands has…
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