Legal Opinion
California Trout v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 20, 2009No. 07-73664, 07-74494, 08-71593PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge BYBEE; Dissent by Judge GOULD.
BYBEE, Circuit Judge:
The Supreme Court has long stressed that “the formulation of procedures [is] basically to be left within the discretion of the agencies to which Congress [has] confided the responsibility for substantive judgments.” Vt. Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Res. Def. Council, Inc., 435 U.S. 519, 524-25, 98 S.Ct. 1197, 55 L.Ed.2d 460 (1978). Agencies must have the ability to manage their own dockets and set reasonable limitations on the processes by which interested persons can support or contest proposed actions. In this…
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