United States Ninth Circuit

Under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act, an actual incidental take is a prerequisite for an Incidental Take Statement.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/14/2001
• Decided 12/17/2001
• Published 12/17/2001

Judges

• WARDLAW, Circuit Judge:, Before:  NOONAN, McKEOWN, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• M. Reed Hopper (on brief), Pacific Legal Foundation, for the amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• M. Alice Thurston (argued), United States Department of Justice, for the defendants-appellants-cross-appellees., Lois J. Schiffer (on brief), Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, for the defendants-appellants-cross-appellees., Samuel D. Rauch (on brief), United States Department of Justice, for the defendants-appellants-cross-appellees., Ellen Durkee (on brief), United States Department of Justice, for the defendants-appellants-cross-appellees., Norman D. James (argued), Fennemore Craig, for the plaintiffs-appellees-cross-appellants., Jay L. Shapiro (on brief), Fennemore Craig, for the plaintiffs-appellees-cross-appellants., Geoff Hickox (on brief), Kenna & Hickox, for the defendant-intervenor-appellant.