Legal implication of DOJ NOT appealing Courts EPA Ruling on Parks?

[Matthew Carberry]

Is there one?

Obviously the Administration wants to let the Court-ordered environmental impact ruling say "guns are bad m'kay".

Is there a legal obligation for the DOJ to defend the properly placed change to DOI policy against the Courts requirement?  To appeal the judge's stay?

I presume they chose not to appeal to get it out of the Courts, which might apply Heller at some point, and back into the agencies they now control.

[ilbob]

The way things work in the real world is the Brady Bunch and the administration found a tame judge who would rule as they wished. Then they can blame it on the judge. The judge will get a promotion to a higher court in a year or two.

[Matthew Carberry]

Yeah, I'm familiar with the real world, but that wasn't my question.

[HallMonitor]

Legislating from the bench, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly struck down national parks carry, under the guise of environmental impact.

The Obama administration will not appeal the court's finding. Go figure.

Interesting this opinion was rendered a month ago, and yesterday is the first time that any newspapers have printed the story.

http://dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2009/04/18/Guns_in_parks.ART_ART_04-18-09_A5_57DJFLP.html?sid=101

[Gewehr98]

Merged HallMonitor's thread into the topic that already discusses the subject at hand.