United States Ninth Circuit

The federal government violated the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 by failing to complete an Environmental Impact Study before approving a whaling quota for the defendant Indian Tribe. (Amended opinion)

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/28/2002
• Decided 06/07/2004
• Published 06/07/2004

Judges

• Before:  HILL,GOULD and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Eric R. Giltzenstein and Kimberly D. Ockene, Meyer & Glitzenstein, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert H. Oakley, Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees., John B. Arum, Ziontz, Chestnut, Varnell, Berley & Slonim, Seattle, WA, for the defendant-intervenor-appellee.