United States Eleventh Circuit

In an action challenging the Fish & Wildlife Service's (FWS) approval of an endangered species protection plan, summary judgment for Defendant is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) FWS's biological opinion considered all material facts; but 2) FWS's "take statement" contained no trigger for re-consultation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/05/2009
• Published 05/05/2009

Judges

• CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and CARNES, Circuit Judges, and BOWEN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dexter W. Lehtinen, Felippe Moncarz, Kelly Brooks Smith, Lehtinen, Vargas & Reidel, P.A., Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark R. Haag, U.S. Dept. of Justice, ENRD, Washington, DC, Robert A. Bourque, Kyle A. Lonergan, James G. Gamble, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, LLP, Bradford H. Sewell, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York City, for Appellees.