United States Ninth Circuit

Plaintiff-s challenge to the adequacy of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is ripe, and both the EIS and the Environmental Assessment for the Coos Bay District are inadequate under the National Environmental Policy Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/13/2000
• Decided 03/22/2002
• Published 03/22/2002

Judges

• Before: GOODWIN, GRABER, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Geoff Hickcox,Kenna & Hickcox, P.C., Durango, CO, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lois J. Schiffer, Assistant Attorney General;  Kristine Olson, Thomas C. Lee, United States Attorney's Office, Portland, OR;  David C. Shilton, Robert L. Klarquist, United States Department of Justice, Washington D.C.;  Roger Nesbit, of Counsel, Office of the Regional Solicitor, Portland OR, for the defendant-appellee., Mark C. Rutzick, Mark C. Rutzick, P.C., Portland, OR, for the defendants-intervenors-appellees.