Court Opinion

ID: 9468572
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 02:17:59.49332+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:40:55.820424
License: Public Domain

GINSBURG, Circuit Judge,
concurring in the judgment:
Based on the considerations Judge Wald presents in Part III of the court’s opinion— Melvin Goldstein and Paul Bloom have left their offices, the first incident of document destruction was concededly inconsequential, the Department of Energy has released the issues paper to the producers — I agree that court intervention is unwarranted at this juncture. While there are rare cases in which compelling reasons support judicial intervention in an ongoing administrative proceeding, I find no occasion to reach that issue in this case. It seems to me a close, and now moot, question whether the extraordinary action of the district court was an appropriate response to the unusual, shifting circumstances the parties’ presentations indicated. I therefore concur in the judgment, without joining the court in expressing approval of the district court’s directions to the Secretary, and would remand the case with instructions to dismiss the complaint.