Legal Opinion
The Lands Council v. McNair
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 2, 2008No. 07-35000PublishedCited by 516 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judge:
We took this case en banc to clarify some of our environmental jurisprudence with respect to our review of the actions of the United States Forest Service.
The Lands Council and Wild West Institute (collectively, Lands Council) moved for a preliminary injunction to halt the Mission Brush Project (the Project), which called for the selective logging of 3,829 acres of forest in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest (IPNF). As the basis for the preliminary injunction, Lands Council claimed that Ranotta McNair and the United States Forest Service (collectively, the…
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