THE WESTERNER

Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.

Thursday, September 07, 2006

CASE SUMMARY

OUACHITA WATCH LEAGUE V. JACOBS
11th Circuit

Holding that majority of plaintiffs' claims, that U.S. Forest Service's changes to certain forest plans failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act, were not ripe for review is reversed as construction of ripeness doctrine used does not apply in NEPA suits.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/11th/0514461p.pdf

Thursday, September 07, 2006

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