Sierra Club v. California

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that it would “be inappropriate to set an infeasible schedule in order to punish a delinquent agency”
• noting that \it would be inappropriate to set an infeasible schedule in order to punish a delinquent agency\
• considering declaration of former Assistant Administrator for Air, Noise, and Radiation at EPA, \that EPA in the past ha[d] completed regulatory tasks of similar complexity\ in the statutorily allotted time period as \persuasive evidence\ that such a timeline was \feasible\
• \[T]he history of the Clean Air Act demonstrates that we cannot rely on EPA to follow through on even its mandatory obligations.\
• “In the absence of a showing of impossibility, EPA must look to Congress, not this Court, for an extension of time.”
• “[T]he history of the Clean Air Act demonstrates that we cannot rely on EPA to follow through on even its mandatory obligations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).