United States Ninth Circuit

Plaintiff's claim that defendant-Navy failed to review the environmental impacts of an accidental missile explosion is dismissed where the National Environmental Policy Act does not require defendant to issue an Environmental Impact Statement for such an accident.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/10/2004
• Decided 09/21/2004
• Published 09/21/2004

Judges

• GOULD, Circuit Judge:, Before BRUNETTI, McKEOWN, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David S. Mann, Gendler & Mann, LLP, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kathryn E. Kovacs, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.