United States Ninth Circuit

Summary judgment for the USDA sustaining, over domestic fruit growers' challenge involving medfly concerns, a rule conditionally allowing the importation of Spanish clementines to resume is affirmed where the agency's action in adopting the new rule was not arbitrary and capricious, and its factual determinations were supported by the administrative record.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/15/2006
• Decided 06/08/2006
• Published 06/08/2006

Judges

• CLIFTON, Circuit Judge:, Before: RYMER, FLETCHER, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roger M. Witten, Neil J. King (argued), Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiffs-appellants., Jan L. Kahn, Kahn, Soares & Conway, Hanford, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, McGregor W. Scott, Michael S. Raab, Teal Luthy Miller (argued), U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees., David A. Holzworth, Hiromi Maruyama, Lepon Holzworth & Kato, PLLC, Washington, D.C., for the intervenors-appellees.