United States Ninth Circuit

In an action challenging the Forest Service's effort to fund fire prevention activities by awarding logging contracts, the denial of a preliminary injunction is reversed, where the District Court failed to assess the factors of irreparable harm, balancing of equities and the public interest, in the context of the narrow relief sought by Plaintiffs.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/01/2008
• Decided 08/13/2009
• Published 08/13/2009

Judges

• Before STEPHEN REINHARDT, JOHN T. NOONAN and RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gregory C. Loarie and Michael R. Sherwood, Earthjustice, Oakland, CA;  Patrick Gallagher, Sierra ClubEnvironmental Law Program, San Francisco, CA;  Eric E. Huber, Sierra ClubEnvironmental Law Program, Boulder, CO;  and David B. Edelson (argued), Berkeley, CA, for plaintiffs-appellants., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General;  Janet Gaard, Acting Chief Assistant Attorney General;  Gordon Burns, Deputy Solicitor General;  Theodora Berger, Senior Assistant Attorney General;  Ken Alex and Sally Magnani Knox, Supervising Deputy Attorneys General;  and Janill L. Richards, Deputy Attorney General, Oakland, CA, for Amicus Curiae Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General of the State of California.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ronald J. Tenpas, Acting Assistant Attorney General;  James L. Rosen, USDA Office of the General Counsel, San Francisco, CA;  Brian Toth, Clay Samford and Jennifer L. Scheller (argued), U.S. Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for federal defendants-appellees., Thomas R. Lundquist, J. Michael Klise and Steven P. Quarles, Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, D.C., for intervening defendants-appellees Toulumne County Alliance for Resources and Environment, et al., Michael B. Jackson, Quincy, CA, for intervening defendant-appellees Quincy Library Group and Plumas County., Brian A. Kelly, Duane Morris LLP, San Francisco, CA, for intervening defendant-appellee California Ski Industry Association.