United States Eighth Circuit

Plaintiffs failed to prove the Department of the Interior's temporary moratorium on issuing Special Use Permits on the Niobrara River in north central Nebraska to new outfitters was arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of agency discretion, in excess of statutory authority or without observance of the procedure required by law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/08/2004
• Published 07/08/2004

Judges

• RILEY, Circuit Judge., Before WOLLMAN, McMILLIAN, and RILEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• K.C. Engdahl, argued, Omaha, NE, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Katherine J. Barton, argued, Justice Dept., Washington, DC (David C. Shilton, Dept. of Justice, on the brief), for appellee.