Humane Society of the United States v. Locke

How courts have described this case

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• holding NMFS did not offer a satisfactory explanation for its findings
• holding NMFS did not offer a satisfactory explanation for its findings
• considering an agency’s 22 prior fishery-related environmental assessments not included in the administrative record 23 because they had findings inconsistent with those included in the record
• assuming without deciding that Chevron deference applied based on a stipulation of the parties
• “reviewing court should not attempt itself to make up for [an agency’s deficiencies….”
• “[T]o comply with NEPA, NMFS prepared an environmental assessment . . . . The final environmental assessment resulted in a finding of no significant impact under NEPA.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).