Ecology Center of Louisiana, Inc. v. Coleman

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

This case drives us into the bayous of environmental law, the estuaries of the *863equitable notion of laches, and the swamps of administrative procedure. We are called upon to decide whether plaintiffs have correctly navigated their legal barge through our procedural channels such that their case should have been heard in district court. The trial court was unimpressed with the plaintiffs’ chart reading and located them on the sandbar of summary judgment. We take a different view and reverse the judgment below in several particulars.

This lawsuit stems from the defendants’…