Alliance for Legal Action v. United States Army Corps of Engineers

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that in evaluating a challenged LEDPA determination “the court’s inquiry is not whether the Corps has clearly demonstrated a lack of practicable alternatives, but whether its decision that [the applicant] had done so was a clear error of judgment”
• “The Corps’s determination that the FAA’s alternatives analysis satisfied the Section 404(b)(1) Guidelines was not arbitrary or capricious”
• “Once the Corps determines the water dependency of a project, it no longer considers the basic project purpose but analyzes practicable alternatives in light of overall project purposes.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).