We demonstrated the illegality of a National Park Service award decision in court, which NPS then ignored. We persevered by filing a second lawsuit using a novel legal theory in another court district which recognized NPS's disregard of the prior judicial ruling. This ruling resulted in NPS voluntarily agreeing to award a multi-year concession contract to our client. NPS now agrees that our client is one of its best concessioners and has awarded it additional concession contracts.
When the U.S. Forest Service revoked our client’s outfitter’s permit, we appealed the decision using the agency's appeal process. We then persuaded the superior agency official to reverse the agency decision allowing our client to continue serving clients on National Forest System land.
The National Park Service issued decisions to close multiple clients' existing concessions operations on the East and West Coasts. Garden Law mounted successful challenges to the Park Service decisions. We preserved the Park Service’s financial liability to concessioners, and those concessions were allowed to continue their operations on Park Service lands.
More about Kevin Garden, J.D. Washington College of Law, The American University, Washington, D.C.
Juris Doctor (J.D.), 1989
The American University Law Review, 1987-1989
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Bachelor's in Arts (B.A.) Government, 1986
The Bar of the District of Columbia and the Bar of Virginia
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
The U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and its appeals court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which is the appellate court for all the federal district courts in the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.
