United States Ninth Circuit

In a challenge to a BLM plan to log protected land after a forest fire, an order granting a permanent injunction against the implementation of the plan is affirmed where: 1) the BLM violated the Federal Land Policy & Management Act by misinterpreting the relevant land use plan to allow the logging; and 2) the BLM's environmental impact statement for the logging plan did not contain an adequate cumulative effects analysis.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/07/2005
• Decided 07/24/2007
• Published 07/24/2007

Judges

• Before:  JAMES R. BROWNING, D.W. NELSON, and DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ellen J. Durkee, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., argued and briefed the case for the federal appellants., Scott W. Horngren and Julie A. Weis, Haglund, Kelley, & Horngren, Jones & Wilder LLP, Portland, OR, briefed the case, and Mr. Horngren argued the case for the intervenors-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Susan Jane Brown, Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center, Portland, OR, argued and briefed the case for the appellees.