United States Fifth Circuit

Action challenging the constitutionality of the Take Provision of the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. section 1538(a)(1)(B), as applied to the endangered and threatened species living at San Marcos and Comal Springs does not present justiciable issues, and the district court was without jurisdiction to decide case; summary judgment in favor of defendants vacated and remanded with instructions to dismiss.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/29/2002
• Published 04/29/2002

Judges

• PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:, Before JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul M. Terrill (argued), Vincent Leroy Hazen, Hazen & Terrill, Austin, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., James C. Kilbourne (argued), David C. Shilton, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, for Gale and Rappaport., David O'Brien Frederick (argued), Frederick Law, Stuart Nelson Henry, Henry, Loweree & Frederick, Renea Hicks, Austin, TX, Kelly Leigh Haragan, Public Citizen, Austin, TX, for Sierra Club., Roger James Magnuson, Dorsey & Whitney, Minneapolis, MN, for Texas Wildlife Ass'n, Amicus Curiae., Gregory Scott Coleman (argued), Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Austin, TX, for State of Texas, Amicus Curiae., Sydney W. Falk, Jr., Emily Willms Rogers, Bickerstaff, Heath, Smiley, Pollan, Kever & McDaniel, Austin, TX, for Texas Farm Bureau, Amicus Curiae., Anne Miyako Hayes, Malcolm Reed Hopper, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA, for Pacific Legal Foundation, Amicus Curiae., Thomas Charles Jackson, Kelley, Drye & Warren, Washington, DC, for National Ass'n of Home Builders, Amicus Curiae., E. Lee Parsley, Locke, Liddell & Sapp, Austin, TX, for American Land Foundation Coalition, Inc. and Riverside & Landowners Protection Coalition, Inc., Amici Curiae., Myron Joseph Hess, National Wildlife Federation, Austin, TX, James B. Dougherty, Washington, DC, for National Wildlife Federation, Amicus Curiae., Melinda E. Taylor, Environmental Defense, Austin, TX, Michael J. Bean, Environmental Defense, Washington, DC, for Environmental Defense and Defenders of Wildlife, Amicus Curiae.