United States Air Tour Ass'n v. Federal Aviation Administration

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the agency’s determination under the Overflights Act of noise levels at the Grand Canyon was arbitrary and capricious where it failed to consider all types of aircraft flying overhead
• stating in response to petitioner's contention that one .Supreme Court case \effectively overruled\ another that \the Supreme Court has made clear that the lower courts do not have the power to make that determination\
• allowing numerical cap on the number of commercial air tours over the Grand Canyon and noting that “[l]imiting the number of visitors at a given time in a national park is a standard measure used to protect park resources”
• “[I]n the absence of any reasonable justification for excluding non-tour aircraft from its noise model, we must conclude that this aspect of the FAA’s methodology is arbitrary and capricious .... ”

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