In Re American Rivers

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• noting that the agency failed to take any action on petitioner’s petition
• addressing what a party needs to show when it seeks a writ of mandamus for unreasonable delay under 5 U.S.C. § 706(1)
• finding delay unreasonable where agency’s “dilatoriness is apparently uncharacteristic of the relatively swift treatment it routinely gives similar petitions”
• mandating a response within forty-five days because the harm of inaction may result in the possible extinction of a species
• explaining that “the primary purpose of the writ [of mandamus] in circumstances” in which a plaintiff files a § 706(1) claim directly in the D.C. Circuit “is to ensure than an agency does not thwart [the Circuit’s] jurisdiction by withholding a reviewable decision”
• \[T]he primary purpose of the writ in circumstances like these is to ensure that an agency does not thwart [the court's] jurisdiction by withholding a reviewable decision.\

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