Friends of the Earth v. Hall

How courts have described this case

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

• “A federal court is not in the business of resolving scientific disagreements between plaintiffs’ experts and the [agency’s] experts.”
• “A federal court is not in the business of resolving scientific disagreements between plaintiffs’ experts and the [agency’s] experts.”
• “[T]he extra-record evidence explains the data and factors on which the Navy and the Corps relied, and thus can be relied upon by the court.”
• “[T]he Corps relies on the EISs and the studies cited therein to conclude that the RADCAD project will not cause significant degradation.”
• “The process used by the Corps, in effect, prevented the public from commenting on the single most important feature of the RADCAD project — the monitoring plan.”
• \[T]he risk of bias resulting from the commitment of resources prior to a required thorough environmental review is the type of irreparable harm that results from a NEPA violation.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).