Legal Opinion
Sierra Club v. John O. Marsh, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 31, 1989No. 88-2049PublishedCited by 128 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Circuit Judge.
In Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Watt, 716 F.2d 946 (1st Cir.1983), we said that the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”), 42 U.S.C. § 4321 et seq. (1982 & Supp. IV 1986), seeks to create a particular bureaucratic decisionmaking process, a process whereby administrators make important decisions with an informed awareness of how the decision might significantly affect the environment. We wrote that, if any such decision is made without the information that NEPA seeks to put before the decisionmaker, the harm that NEPA seeks to prevent occurs. Watt, 716 F.2d at…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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- Amoco Production Co. v. Village of GambellSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Weinberger v. Romero-BarceloSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Porter v. Warner Holding Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts v. Francis X. BellottiCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1981
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3Cited by128 opinions
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- Citizens For Better Forestry v. U.S. Department Of AgricultureCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2003
- National Parks & Conservation Ass'n v. BabbittCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2001
- Sierra Club v. United States Army Corps of EngineersCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2011
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