United States Ninth Circuit

The district court's remedy for deficiencies in the Merced Wild and Scenic River Comprehensive Management Plan is reversed where it inadequately addresses user capacities by failing to set the "maximum quantity of use" for the river area and too narrowly defines boundaries.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/11/2003
• Decided 10/27/2003
• Published 10/27/2003

Judges

• WARDLAW, Circuit Judge., Before GOODWIN, TASHIMA, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Julia A. Olson, Wild Earth Advocates, Oakland, CA;  Sharon E. Duggan, Berkeley, CA, for the appellants., Peter M.K. Frost, Western Environmental Law Center, Eugene OR, for amici curiae Sierra Club, et al.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General, Environment & Natural Resources Division;  John K. Vincent, United States Attorney;  E. Robert Wright, Assistant United States Attorney;  Elizabeth A. Peterson, Charles R. Shockey, David C. Shilton, Attorneys, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the appellees.