United States Ninth Circuit

District court erred in denying plaintiff's summary judgment motion concerning a permit to extend an existing oil refinery dock. The matter must be remanded with an injunction freezing tanker traffic pending a full environmental impact statement considering the impact of increases in tanker traffic, and a reevaluation of the dock extension's potential violation of the Magnuson Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/11/2003
• Decided 03/15/2004
• Published 03/15/2004

Judges

• Before D.W. NELSON, THOMAS, Circuit Judges, and PREGERSON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John B. Arum, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiff-appellant., Claudia M. Newman, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elaine Spencer, Seattle, WA, for the defendant-intervenor-appellee/cross-appellant., Ronald M. Spritzer, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, for the defendant-appellee.