• Center for Biological Diversity v. Zinke

    Publication Date: 2017-08-29
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-08-28
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: David G. Campbell, District Judge, Presiding Before: William A. Fletcher and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges, and Robert W. Pratt,* District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel J. Rohlf (argued), Earthrise Law Center, Portland, Oregon; Justin Augustine, Center for Biological Diversity, Oakland, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
    for defendant: Mark R. Haag (argued), David C. Shilton, H. Hubert Yang, and Kristen L. Gustafson, Attorneys; John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General; Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Frank Lupo, Office of the Solicitor, Southwest Region, United States Department of the Interior, Albuquerque, New Mexico; for Defendants-Appellees.

    Case Number: No. 14-17513

    Finding of persistence of discrete population segment in unusual or unique setting did not compel classification as distinct population segment (Fletcher, J.)