Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Western Oil & Gas Ass'n v. Alaska
439 U.S. 922
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1978-10-30
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- “where courts have enjoined ongoing projects, they have done so primarily to preserve for the rele vant decisionmaker the full opportunity to choose among alternatives that is contemplated by NEPA.”
Citator
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C. A. D. C. Cir. Certiorari granted. Part II-C of decision below is vacated and case is remanded to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for dismissal of paragraph 37 (j) of the complaint.