Legal Opinion
Mountain States Legal Foundation v. Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 23, 1996No. 95-5185PublishedCited by 212 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS.
STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs — two non-profit corporations, several Montana and Idaho municipalities, and a lumber company — filed suit attacking the government’s choice among several alternatives for timber harvesting in part of a national forest. They claimed that in rejecting alternatives with more harvesting the government disregarded necessary procedures and neglected (or at least gave too short shrift to) important factors, i.e., acted arbitrarily and capriciously. The plaintiffs based their claims on…
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