United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction to halt a selective logging project in Idaho is reversed and remanded where: 1) plaintiffs demonstrated a probability of success on the merits and a possibility of irreparable injury; and 2) they showed that the balance of hardships and the public interest favored granting the preliminary injunction.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/27/2008
• Decided 07/02/2007
• Published 07/02/2007

Judges

• MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judge:, Before:  ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, PAMELA ANN RYMER, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, BARRY G. SILVERMAN, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, RAYMOND C. FISHER, MARSHA S. BERZON, RICHARD R. CLIFTON, MILAN D. SMITH, JR., and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Karen Lindholdt, University Legal Assistance, Spokane, WA;  Thomas J. Woodbury, Forest Defense, P.C., Missoula, MT, for the Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Andrew C. Mergen and Thomas W. Swegle, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellee., Scott W. Horngren and Julie A. Weis, Haglund Kelley Horngren Jones & Wilder LLP, Portland, OR;  Philip H. Robinson, Boundary County Civil Counsel, Bonners Ferry, ID, for Defendant-Intervenors-Appellees.