Legal Opinion
Northwest Forest Resource Council v. Michael Dombeck, Acting Director, Bureau of Land Management, and Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 7, 1997No. 96-5211PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Chief Judge EDWARDS.
HARRY T. EDWARDS, Chief Judge.
Appellants — the Northwest Forest Resource Council (“NFRC”) et al., an industry/labor/citizen coalition — appeal the District Court’s decision dismissing their claims arising out of the 1994 President’s Forest Plan. Northwest Forest v. Secretary of Agriculture, Civ. No. 93-1621 (D.D.C. May 22, 1996) (trans.), reprinted in Joint Appendix (“J.A”) 241. The District Court found that appellants’ claims were barred by the stare decisis effect of a decision by Judge Dwyer in the Western District of Washington, Seattle…
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3Cited by13 opinions
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