Humane Soc. of US v. Johanns

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an agency may not “avoid NEPA review simply by failing even to consider 40 whether a normally excluded action may have a significant environmental impact” (emphasis in original)
• observing that vacatur is the “standard remedy” for an “action promulgated in violation of NEPA”
• finding a NEPA violation where “the record reveals no contemporaneous consideration by the administrative decisionmaker of the applicability of the categorical exclusion”
• “Pursuant to the case law in this Circuit, vacating .a rule or action promulgated in violation of NEPA is the standard remedy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).