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· 1/10/1984

Defenders of Wildlife, Inc. v. The Endangered Species Scientific Authority

Citations

  • 725 F.2d 726
  • 233 U.S. App. D.C. 199
  • 20 ERC 1833
  • 14 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20188
  • 20 ERC (BNA) 1833
  • 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 26588

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that Congress’s intervening passage of a bill expressly affirming challenged agency guidelines meant that any challenge to agency guidelines promulgated under the intervening legislation required a new lawsuit
  • the appropriate vehicle for challenge when a new regulation moots a case is “a subsequent action[.]”

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Judges: Wilkey, Bork, Lumbard

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