Northwest Forest Resource Council v. Dombeck

ELR Citation: ELR 21043
No(s). 96-5211 (D.C. Cir. Mar 7, 1997)

The court reverses a district court opinion that the stare decisis effect of a decision by a federal district court in Washington State bars appellants' current challenge to the president's 1994 forest plan. The court holds that stare decisis does not require a district court in one circuit to follo...