Sierra Club v. Peterson

Full title: SIERRA CLUB; WILDERNESS SOCIETY; TEXAS COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES…

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

Date published: Jan 21, 2000

204 F.3d 580 (5th Cir. 2000)

Opinion

No. 97-41274.

January 21, 2000.

Mary Alice Van Kerrebrook (argued), Wilson, Cribbs, Goren Flaum, Houston, TX, for Sierra Club.

Ingrid Karin Hansen, Ashley Kingsland Wadick (argued), Austin, TX, for Wilderness Society.

Edward C. Fritz, Dallas, TX, for Texas Committee on Natural Resources.

David C. Shilton, Elizabeth Ann Peterson, Lisa Holden (General Litigation Section), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, Ruth Harris Yeager, Tyler, Tx, Wells D. Burgess, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Land Natural Resources Div., Stephanie Marie Parent, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, Robert L. Klarquist (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment Natural Resource Div., Arlington, VA, for Glickman, Manning, Dombeck and Raum.

Appeals from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas; Richard A. Schell, Chief Judge.

ON PETITIONS FOR REHEARING EN BANC

(Opinion, August 16, 1999, 5 Cir., 1999, 185 F.3d 349)

Before KING, Chief Judge, JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM, DAVIS, JONES, SMITH, WIENER, BARKSDALE, EMILIO M. GARZA, DeMOSS, BENAVIDES, STEWART, and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.^_

_ Judge Parker is recused and did not participate in this matter.

BY THE COURT:

A member of the Court in active service having requested a poll on the petitions for rehearing en banc and a majority of the judges in active service having voted in favor of granting a rehearing en banc,

IT IS ORDERED that this cause shall be reheard by the court en banc with oral argument on a date hereafter to be fixed. The Clerk will specify a briefing schedule for the filing of supplemental briefs.