Coalition on Sensible Transportation, Inc. v. Elizabeth Dole

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the Department of Transportation’s decision not to prepare an EIS for a road construction project widening approximately sixteen miles of highway was reasonable
• holding that the “logical terminus” criterion is extremely hard to analyze where a proposed road runs within a single metropolitan area as opposed to running between two cities
• holding that officials balancing harms from different alternatives under Section 4(f) did not need to provide formal findings given that “[t]he record demonstrates consideration of the relevant factors”
• incorporating the effects of other highway projects that had been previously approved by assuming they would be completed
• stating “[i]t makes sense to consider the ‘incremental impact’ of a project for possible cumulative effects by incorporating the effects of other projects into the background ‘database’ of the project at issue, rather than by restating the results of the prior studies.”
• “The proper question is whether one project will serve a significant purpose even if a second related project is not built.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).