Legal Opinion
Sierra Club v. Martin
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 18, 1999No. 98-8358PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARKETT, Circuit Judge:
The Sierra Club 1 appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the United States Forest Service (“Forest Service”) and intervenor timber companies in connection with the Forest Service’s decision to allow seven timber sales in Georgia’s Chattahoochee National Forest, which will enable logging (including clearcutting), road building and related activities. On appeal, Sierra Club asserts that the decision to permit the timber sales, which it contends will damage the forest environment, was arbitrary and capricious and thus violated the National Forest…
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3Cited by90 opinions
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