Forest Conservation Council v. Devlin

ELR Citation: ELR 20995
No(s). 91-35680 (9th Cir. Jun 4, 1993)

The court holds that the district court properly ruled that a public interest group is not a prevailing party under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), because the group conceded that its prelitigation efforts, rather than the filing of its lawsuit, caused the U.S. Forest Service to withdraw a c...