Smillie v. United States

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• holding that an agency may rely upon the reasonable opinions of its own experts
• rejecting the Government's argument that plaintiffs' claims must wait for specific applications of challenged policy statement
• challenging vegetation management policy and accompanying EIS adopted by Forest Service
• “Having persuaded the district court that it understands its duty to follow NEPA in reviewing future site-specific programs, judicial estoppel will preclude the [agency] from later arguing that it has no further duty to consider the cumulative impact of [those] programs.”

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