United States Eighth Circuit

In an action involving the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act, district court's grant of defendant's motion for summary judgment is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff's claims that the Forest Service violated the Act are time barred by the six year statute of limitations in the Act; and 2) there is no appellate jurisdiction over the appeal of the district court's order remanding the matter to the Forest Service to prepare an environmental impact statement assessing the sound impact of the proposed snowmobile trail.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/06/2009
• Published 03/06/2009

Judges

• SMITH, Circuit Judge., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, BYE and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David P. Iverson, AAG, on the brief, St. Paul, MN, for amicus party MN Department of Natural Resources., Mark A. Anderson, William A. Szotkowski, and Sara K. Van Norman, on the brief, St. Paul, MN, for amicus party Grand Portage Bank of the MN Chippewa Tribe.


• For Appellees:
  
• Brian B. O'Neill, argued, Richard A. Duncan, Jonathan W. Dettmann and Kristen M. Gast, on the brief, Minneapolis, MN, for appellants/cross-appellees, Wilderness Watch, Sierra Club Northstar Chapter, and Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness., Robert Harris Oakley, argued, Washington, D.C., Aaron P. Avila, Rachel A. Dougan, USDOJ, Washington, D.C., Ronald J. Tenpas, AAG, Washington, D.C., and David W. Fuller, AUSA, Minneapolis, MN, on the brief, for appellees, Abigail Kimbell and Mike Johanns., David R. Oberstar, argued, Duluth, MN, for appellees Conservationists With Common Sense, Cook County and Arrowhead Coalition for Multiple Use in 07-3689 and 08-1167., David R. Oberstar, I, argued, Duluth, MN, for appellees/cross-appellants Cook County, Arrowhead Coalition for Multiple Use, and Conservationists With Common Sense in 07-3696.