Legal Opinion
Heartwood, Inc. v. United States Forest Service
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 18, 2000No. 00-1230PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Heartwood, Inc., Jim Bensman, and Mark Donham (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) challenge the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendants, the United States Forest Service and Mike Dombeck, Chief of the Forest Service, as to Count II of their complaint. In Count II, Heartwood alleged that when the Forest Service (“Service”) adopted a rule excluding certain classes of Service action from procedural safeguards designed to determine the environmental impact of those actions, it violated the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”), 42 U.S.C. § 4321, et…
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