The Lands Council v. McNair

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an agency must support its conclusions with studies that the agency deems reliable
• holding that the Forest Service did not act arbitrarily and capriciously by failing to verify its model with on-the-ground data
• recognizing that the court is not to make “fine-grained judgments of [the science’s] worth”
• holding that the proper role for a reviewing court \is simply to ensure that the Forest Service made no clear error of judgment that would render its action arbitrary and capricious\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that the court is not to impose its own scientific judgment on the agency
• noting that this is particularly so where plaintiffs are also found not likely to succeed on the merits of their claims.

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