SIERRA PACIFIC INDUSTRIES v. LYNG

Nos. 86-2708, 86-2718, 86-2994, 86-15012, 87-3799 and 87-3835.

866 F.2d 1099 (1989)

SIERRA PACIFIC INDUSTRIES, a California corporation; Pine Mountain Lumber Co., a California corporation; George A. Schmidbauer; Mary M. Schmidbauer; Schmidbauer Lumber, Inc., a California corporation, Plaintiffs-Cross Appellees, and Eel River Sawmills, Inc., a California corporation; Erickson Lumber Co., a California corporation; Hi-Ridge Lumber Co., a California corporation; P & M Cedar Products, Inc., a California corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross Appellees, v. Richard LYNG, Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture; R. Max Peterson, Chief of the United States Forest Service; Zane G. Smith, Jr., Regional Forester for Region 5 of the United States Forest Service, Defendants-Appellees-Cross Appellants. BIG FLAT TIMBER CO., a California general partnership; Suntip Co., an Oregon general partnership; Hampton Tree Farms, Inc., an Oregon corporation; Roseburg Lumber Co., an Oregon corporation; Publishers Paper Co., a Delaware corporation; Penn Timber, Inc., an Oregon corporation; Merrill & Ring, Inc., a Washington corporation; Wilsonville Timber Co., Ltd., an Oregon partnership, Plaintiffs-Cross Appellees, and Willamette Industries, Inc., an Oregon corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross Appellee, and Pedee Lumber Co., an Oregon corporation; Alpine Veneers, Inc., an Oregon corporation, Plaintiffs-Intervenors, v. Richard LYNG, Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture; R. Max Peterson, Chief of the United States Forest Service; James F. Torrence, Regional Forester for Region 6 of the United States Forest Service, Defendants-Appellees-Cross Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided January 25, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wesley R. Higbie, Hendrickson, Higbie & Cole, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants-cross appellees Eel River Sawmills, Inc., et al.

James N. Westwood, Miller Nash, Wiener, Hager & Carlsen, Portland, Or., for plaintiff-appellant-cross appellee Willamette Industries, Inc.

Dirk D. Snel, Dept. of Justice, Land and Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees-cross appellants.

James H. Clarke, Spears, Lubersky, Campbell, Bledsoe, Anderson & Young, Portland, Or., for plaintiff-cross appellee Publishers Paper Co.

Mildred J. Carmack, Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, Portland, Or., for plaintiffs-cross appellees Penn Timber, Inc., et al.

Before GOODWIN, SCHROEDER and POOLE, Circuit Judges.


POOLE, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs, logging and timber firms, brought separate actions in California and Oregon against defendants, the Secretary of Agriculture and U.S. Forest Service officials, challenging the validity of regulations issued to implement § 2 of the Federal Timber Contract Payment Modification Act, 16 U.S.C. § 618 (Supp. IV 1986) ("the Act"). The Act allows holders of certain federal timber contracts to be released from their contractual obligations...

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