Legal Opinion
Sierra Club v. Martin
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 29, 1997No. 96-8840PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BLACK, Circuit Judge:
The United States Forest Service (Forest Service) and a group of timber contractors, including Bert Thomas, Cook Brothers Lumber Company, Inc., Parton Lumber Company, Inc., and Thrift Brothers Lumber Company, Inc. (collectively Timber Contractors), appeal the issuance of a preliminary injunction on May 8, 1996, ordering the Forest Service to stop all timber cutting and road building activities in seven timber projects in the Chattahoochee and Oconee National Forests in Georgia (collectively Chattahoochee). We reverse.
I. BACKGROUND
A. The Litigation
In 1991, pursuant to the…
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