United States Ninth Circuit

The United States Forest Service-s issuance of annual operating instructions (AOIs) to permittees who graze livestock on national forest land constitutes final agency action for purposes of judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/07/2006
• Decided 09/21/2006
• Published 09/21/2006

Judges

• PAEZ, Circuit Judge., Before FERDINAND F. FERNANDEZ, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and RICHARD A. PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter M. Lacy, Oregon Natural Desert Association, Portland, OR;  Stephanie M. Parent, David Becker, Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center, Portland, OR, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kelly A. Johnson, Acting Assistant Attorney General;  Karen J. Immergut, United States Attorney;  Stephen J. Odell, Assistant United States Attorney;  Robert H. Oakley and Jennifer J. Scheller, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellees., Karen Budd-Falen and Hertha L. Lund, Budd-Falen Law Offices, LLC, Cheyenne, WY, for the intervenors-defendants-appellees.