United States Ninth Circuit

The Fish and Wildlife Service does not have discretion, under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), to make substantial information findings beyond the twelve-month deadline imposed for warranted/not-warranted findings.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/05/2001
• Decided 03/21/2002
• Published 03/21/2002

Judges

• Before T.G. NELSON, GRABER and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel J. Rohlf, and Stephanie M. Parent, Pacific Northwest Environmental Advocacy Center, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiffs-appellants., James B. Dougherty, Washington, D.C., for the amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• M. Alice Thurston, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.