United States Ninth Circuit

The district court correctly found that defendant was in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act by failing to assess the individual and cumulative impacts of the issuance of special-use permits to commercial packstock operators in wilderness areas. However, the district court erred in finding that the requirements of the Wilderness Act had not been violated.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/12/2003
• Decided 08/25/2004
• Published 08/25/2004

Judges

• HUG, Circuit Judge., Before HUG, JOHN R. GIBSON, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Peter M.K. Frost, Western Environmental Law Center, Eugene, OR, for the plaintiffs-appellants-cross-appellees., David C. Shilton, Appellate Section, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellees-cross-appellants., John E. Dicks and Donald R. Dinan, Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C., Washington, DC, for the intervenors-defendants-cross-appellants.