United States Ninth Circuit

A district court had jurisdiction to consider plaintiffs' challenge to the incorporation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) into the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act's (ANILCA) permitting process, and conducting a NEPA analysis was consistent with the "adequate and feasible access" right of ANILCA. (Substituted opinion)

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/12/2005
• Decided 08/25/2006
• Published 08/25/2006

Judges

• Before ALFRED T. GOODWIN, MELVIN BRUNETTI, and WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Russell C. Brooks and James S. Burling, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew J. Sanders, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees., Robert W. Randall and Rebecca L. Bernard, Trustees for Alaska, Anchorage, AK, for the defendants-intervenors-appellees.