United States Tenth Circuit

Convictions, for illegally possessing eagle feathers, cannot be affirmed absent a showing by the government that permitting schemes of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act are the least restrictive means of advancing its compelling interests.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/05/2002
• Published 08/05/2002

Judges

• TACHA, Chief Judge.**, Before TACHA, Chief Judge, McKAY, SEYMOUR, BALDOCK, EBEL, KELLY, HENRY, BRISCOE, LUCERO, MURPHY, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Cindy Barton-Coombs, Roosevelt, UT, for Appellant Hardman., Joseph F. Orifici, Salt Lake City, UT, for Appellant Wilgus., Stuart J. Lark and Gregory S. Baylor, Center for Law and Religious Freedom, Christian Legal Society, submitted a brief for amicus Christian Legal Society, the New Mexico Civil Liberties Foundation, and the Commission on Social Action of Reformed Judaism., Alfred T. McDonnell and Kevin T. Traskos, Arnold & Porter, Denver, CO, submitted a brief for amicus Hopi Tribe., Stephen H. Greetham, Nordhaus, Haltom, Taylor, Taradash & Bladh, LLP, Albuquerque, NM;  Wayne H. Bladh and Susan G. Jordan, Nordhaus, Haltom, Taylor, Taradash, & Bladh, LLP, Santa Fe, NM, submitted a brief for amicus Jicarilla Tribe.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter Schoenburg of Rothstein, Donatelli, Hughes, Dahlstrom, Schoenburg & Frye, LLP, Albuquerque, NM (Justin Bogan, Eureka, CA, with him on the brief), for Appellee Saenz., Kathryn E. Kovacs, Attorney, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (John Cruden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Christopher B. Chaney, Assistant United States Attorney, Salt Lake City, UT, Sasha Siemel, Assistant United States Attorney, Albuquerque, NM, Andrew Mengen, Attorney, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., E. Ann Peterson, Attorney, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.;   and William G. Myers, III, Solicitor, Benjamin C. Jesup, Attorney, Mary Anne Kenworthy, Attorney, Janet Spaulding, Attorney, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., with her on the brief), arguing as Appellee for the United States in case numbers 99-4210 and 00-4015, and arguing as Appellant for the Department of Interior in case number 00-2166.