United States Ninth Circuit

Environmental Law, Water Law

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/13/2005
• Decided 07/26/2005
• Published 07/27/2005

Judges

• Before TASHIMA, THOMAS, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Koward G. Arnett, Karnopp Petersen, LLP, Bend, OR;  David J. Cummings, Nez Perce Tribe, Lapwai, ID;  Christopher B. Leahy, Fredericks, Pelcyger & Hester, LLC, Louisville, CO;  Tim Weaver, Law Offices of Tim Weaver, Yakima, WA, for amici curiae Treaty Tribes., Robert D. Thornton and Paul S. Weiland, Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott, LLP, Irvine, CA, for amicus curiae National Association of Homebuilders., Rob McKenna, Attorney General, and Michael S. Grossman, Assistant Attorney General, State of Washington, Olympia, WA, for amicus curiae State of Washington., John C. Bruning, Attorney General, David D. Cookson, Assistant Attorney General, State of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE;  Thomas R. Wilmoth, Special Assistant Attorney General, Fennemore Craig, P.C., Lincoln, NE, for amicus curiae State of Nebraska.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark Eames, NOAA Office of General Counsel, Seattle, WA;  Gayle Lear, Assistant Division Counsel, Northwestern Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland, OR;  Kelly A. Johnson, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Fred Disheroon, Ruth Ann Lowery, Ellen J. Durkee, and Jennifer L. Scheller, Attorneys, Environment & Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the federal defendants-appellants., Matthew A. Love and Sam Kalen, Van Ness Feldman, P.C., Seattle, WA, for defendants-appellants BPA Customer Group.  Lawrence G. Wasden, Attorney General, Clive J. Strong, Deputy Attorney General, and Clay R. Smith, Deputy Attorney General, State of Idaho, Boise, ID, for defendant-intervenor-appellant State of Idaho., Todd D. True and Stephen D. Mashuda, Earthjustice, Seattle, WA;  Daniel J. Rohlf, Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center, Portland, OR, for plaintiffs-appellees National Wildlife Federation., Hardy Myers, Attorney General, Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General, David E. Leith, Assistant Attorney General, and Stephen K. Bushong, State of Oregon, Salem, OR, for plaintiff-intervenor-appellee State of Oregon.