Alaska Center for the Environment Alaska Wildlife Alliance v. U.S. Forest Service John C. Dorio, District Ranger, Chugach National Forest

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the Forest Service is required to conduct scoping for “all proposed actions, including those that would appear to be ‘categorically excluded.’ ”
• stating that arguments not made in an appellant’s opening brief are waived and cannot be raised for the first time in a reply brief
• explaining that issue was not whether the exact same permit would be issued again, but whether the agency would issue other permits like the one challenged
• stating that an argument waived by an appellant’s failure to raise it in its opening brief cannot be raised for the first time in its reply brief
• finding that an agency's interpretation of a CE was not inconsistent or contrary to the language of the CE where it fit within the \general scope\ of the terms of the CE
• explaining that a party waives any argument not raised until the reply brief

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).