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· 7/23/2008

Town of Winthrop v. Administration

Citations

  • 535 F.3d 1
  • 38 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20184
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 15552
  • 2008 WL 2814806

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  • holding that, when an agency is faced with an “area of research ... still developing,” it is not arbitrary and capricious to decline to take action while “evaluating] the issue more fully”
  • “[I]t was not arbitrary and capricious for the FAA to conclude that it had enough data to make a reasoned decision. There will always be more data that could be gathered; agencies must have some discretion to decide when to draw the line and move forward with decisionmaking.”
  • \[I]t was not arbitrary and capricious for the FAA to conclude that it had enough data to make a reasoned decision. There will always be more data that could be gathered; agencies must have some discretion to decide when to draw the line and move forward with decisionmaking.\

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Judges: Lynch, Lipez, Howard

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