United States Eighth Circuit

Judgment in favor of defendant-agency in a declaratory judgment action challenging decisions made by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service affecting the use of plaintiffs' land for goose hunting is affirmed where defendant's determinations were not arbitrary and capricious, and its interpretation of regulations was not plainly erroneous.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/05/2006
• Published 07/05/2006

Judges

• SMITH, Circuit Judge., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, LAY, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellant was Jack H. Hieb of Aberdeen, South Dakota.


• For Appellees:
  
• Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellee was Jan Leslie Holmgren, Assistant U.S. Attorney, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.   Also appearing on the brief was Micheel G. Tapken.