Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. United States Army Corps of Engineers

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a project was “genuinely and extremely controversial” where “three federal agencies,” “one state agency,” and the public “all disputed the Corps[’s] evaluation”
• requiring an EIS for certain casino permits in part because three other federal agencies had “pleaded with the Corps to prepare an EIS”
• holding an agency project to be “genuinely and extremely controversial” where three federal agencies, one state agency, and the public “all disputed the Corps evaluation,” and “the Corps’ own leadership recognized that” the project at issue “engendered considerable controversy”
• project classified as \genuinely and extremely controversial\ where three federal agencies, one state agency, and the public \all disputed the Corps evaluation\
• “All three EAs merely recite the history of development along the Mississippi coast and then conclude that the cumulative direct impacts ‘have been minimal.’ There is no actual analysis, only that conclusory statement.”
• project classified as “genuinely and extremely controversial” where three federal agencies, one state agency, and the public “all disputed the Corps evaluation of the environmental impacts . . . and pleaded with the Corps to prepare an EIS”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).