Nrdc v. Winter

Opinion

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE  COUNCIL, INC.; THE INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE; CETACEAN SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL; LEAGUE FOR COASTAL PROTECTION; OCEAN FUTURES SOCIETY; JEAN- MICHEL COUSTEAU, Plaintiffs-Appellees,

CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION, Intervenor-Appellee, No. 08-55054 v. D.C. No.

DONALD C. WINTER, Secretary of CV-07-00335-FMC the Navy; UNITED STATES  Central District DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY; CARLOS of California, M. GUTIERREZ, Secretary of the Santa Ana Department of Commerce; ORDER NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICES; WILLIAM HOGARTH, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration; CONRAD C. LAUTENBACHER, JR., Administrator of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Defendants-Appellants.

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On Remand From The United States Supreme Court

Filed March 25, 2009

3768 NRDC v. WINTER Before: Betty B. Fletcher, Dorothy W. Nelson, and Stephen Reinhardt, Circuit Judges.

COUNSEL

Ronald J. Tenpas (argued), Acting Assistant Attorney General ; Kathryn E. Kovacs, Michael R. Eitel, Luther L. Hajek, and Allen M. Brabender, Appellate Section, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington , D.C.; Craig D. Jensen and J. Page Turney, Office of General Counsel, Department of the Navy, for the federal defendants-appellants.

Joel R. Reynolds, Andrew E. Wetzler, Cara A. Horowitz, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Santa Monica, California ; Richard B. Kendall (argued), Gregory A. Fayer, and Josh B. Gordon, Irell and Manella LLP, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Thomas Greene, J. Matthew Rodriguez , Gordon Burns, Jamee Jordan Patterson (argued), Office of the Attorney General of California, for intervener-appellee California Coastal Commission.

Theodore G. Meeker, Attorney at Law, Honolulu, Hawaii, for amicus curiae Honolulu Council of the Navy League of the United States.

David K. Mears, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, Vermont, for amicus curiae Law Professors Hope Babcock, David Cassuto, Stephen Dycus, James R. May, Ann Powers, and Gerald Torres .

NRDC v. WINTER 3769 ORDER

We remand to the district court to comply with the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 129 S. Ct. 365 (2008).

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