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· 3/2/2011

Dow Agrosciences LLC v. National Marine Fisheries Service

Citations

  • 637 F.3d 259
  • 72 ERC 1353
  • 41 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20103
  • 72 ERC (BNA) 1353
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 3907

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that FIFRA provides the exclusive judicial review provision for all challenges to a final EPA order under FIFRA, including “all issues inhering” in such a challenge
  • rejecting the NMFS’s argument that the plaintiffs’ challenge to a BiOp filed before the EPA made any FIFRA registration decision was premature “based on its view that the BiOp could become insignificant” because the “BiOp represents the culmination of [the NMFS’s] decisionmaking process”
  • “When a court of appeals reviews the EPA’s reliance on a [report issued by another agency], it would determine only whether the EPA’s reliance was arbitrary and capricious
  • “When a court of appeals reviews the EPA’s reliance on a [report issued by another agency], it would determine only whether the EPA’s reliance was arbitrary and capricious.”
  • distinguishing case from D.C. Circuit cases involving final agency action
  • applying Bennett v. Spear, 520 U.S. 154 (1997)

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Judges: Niemeyer, Shedd, Agee

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