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· 10/30/2002

Building Industry Legal Defense Foundation v. Norton

Citations

  • 231 F. Supp. 2d 100
  • 33 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20110
  • 55 ERC (BNA) 1730
  • 2002 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21206
  • 2002 WL 31455759

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  • holding the FWS’s choice of methodology in that case “constitute[d] serious substantive errors, not mere procedural flaws, and hence warrant[ed] vacatur”
  • finding 31 month proposed time frame “too long” and requiring FWS to promulgate new critical habitat designations within 21 months despite agency’s “resource allocation issues”
  • “In assessing the ‘disruptive consequences’ of vacatur, the Court cannot rely upon inter-venors’ abstract policy arguments ....” (internal citation omitted)

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Judges: Bates

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