Legal Opinion
O'Reilly v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 25, 2007No. 04-31026PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENNIS, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs, residents of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, who allege that the environment surrounding their dwellings, businesses, and recreational areas will be unlawfully harmed by a residential subdivision developer’s dredging and filling of wetlands, challenge the United States Army Corps of Engineers’ (“the Corps”) Finding Of No Significant Impact (“FON-SI”) on the environment under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (“NEPA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 4321-4370f, which resulted in the Corps’s issuance of a permit to dredge and fill wetlands to the developer under § 404…
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