Opinion

Armco, Inc. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Intervenor

  • 869 F.2d 975
  • 19 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20769
  • 29 ERC (BNA) 1250
  • 1989 U.S. App. LEXIS 2968
  • 1989 WL 21530
Court
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Filed
Mar 15, 1989
Status
Published
Author
Engel
On the bench
Engel, Wellford, Thomas
Cited by
11 cases

disclaiming jurisdiction where EPA had refused to perform nondiscretionary responsibility to propose comprehensive sludge management regulations

How later courts described this case

  • disclaiming jurisdiction where EPA had refused to perform nondiscretionary responsibility to propose comprehensive sludge management regulations

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

ENGEL, Chief Judge,

concurring.

I fully concur in section I of Judge Well-ford’s excellent opinion concluding that we are without jurisdiction to hear this petition for review. Having held as much, I refrain from joining in the remainder of the opinion, not because of disagreement with its content but because, having concluded that we have no jurisdiction over the controversy at this stage, I am uncomfortable in joining in comments which, while they may be well borne out ultimately by later developments, are essentially dicta at this point as the majority opinion acknowledges.

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