Legal Opinion
Natural Resources Defense Council v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 22, 2006No. 04-5337-cvPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTER, Circuit Judge.
The appellants in this action are eleven public health, environmental, religious and farmworker organizations, including the Natural Resources Defense Council (collectively, the “NRDC Appellants”). They appeal from Judge Lynch’s dismissal of their complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
The complaint challenged the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”)1 decision to leave in effect certain pesticide “tolerances” (ie., the maximum permissible amount of pesticide residues on food) for five pesticides after a systematic tolerance reassessment program required…
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