Conservation Law Foundation of New England, Inc. v. Clark

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Executive Orders 11644 and 11989, issued in furtherance of NEPA, have “the force and effect of law” and are enforceable
• recognizing, in the context of rulemaking, a number of exceptions to the general rule that a court’s inquiry in administrative review cases is “confined to the full record before the agency at the time the decision is made”
• finding the “zones” established for ORV use met requirements under E.O. 11644
• most exceptions to the rule confining APA review to the record before the agency “involve instances where the record submitted by the agency is self-serving, incomplete or unclear.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).