United States Ninth Circuit

In an appeal arising from a judgment enjoining Forest Service regulations governing review of decisions implementing forest plans, the district court's invalidation of 36 C.F.R. sections 215.12(f) and 215.4(a) and a nationwide injunction against their enforcement is affirmed, but the judgment and injunction is remanded to be vacated with respect to all but one of the remaining regulations, for lack of a controversy ripe for review. (Amended opinion)

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/12/2006
• Decided 06/08/2007
• Published 06/08/2007

Judges

• Before:  MARY M. SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, SUSAN P. GRABER, Circuit Judge, and KEVIN THOMAS DUFFY, Senior Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas R. Lundquist, Crowell & Moring, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Katherine W. Hazard and Jennifer L. Scheller, U.S. Department of Justice Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellants., Matt Kenna, Western Environmental Law Center, Durango, CO, for the plaintiffs-appellees.