Fairbanks North Star Borough v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an 2 agency’s action was final where “[n]o further agency decisionmaking on the issue can be 3 expected”
• finding that a JD “announces the Corps’ considered, definite and firm position about the presence of jurisdictional wetlands on [the] property at the time it is rendered”
• explaining that the second Bennett prong was not met where “rights and obligations remain unchanged.”
• rejecting defendant’s argument against finality that “conflate[d] one 14 . . . decision with a future yet distinct administrative process.”
• referring to \final agency action\ as a \jurisdictional requirement imposed by statute\
• greater risk of future increased fines “does not constitute a legal consequence” for judicial review purposes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).