Robert MacHt v. Samuel K. Skinner, Secretary, Department of Transportation

How courts have described this case

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

• “ ‘[T]here is a wide gulf between what a state may want and what the federal government is willing to provide.’ ”
• federal funding of preliminary studies for proposed extensions does not federalize non-federally funded light rail system construction
• “NEPA requires federal agencies — not states or private parties — to consider the environmental impacts of their proposed actions”
• no “major federal action” where agency’s actions did not indicate a “firm commitment” to fund project

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).