United States Ninth Circuit

In an action claiming defendants violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in adopting a program to restore and protect Santa Cruz Island by, in part, eradicating its feral pig population, an appeal from a judgment for defendants is dismissed as moot as: 1) the National Park Service completely eradicated the feral pigs from the island during the pendency of the litigation; and 2) plaintiffs alleged only procedural violations in the development of the eradication program and did not seek compensation in monetary damages.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/10/2008
• Published 01/10/2008

Judges

• Before:  KIM McLANE WARDLAW, CARLOS T. BEA, and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Yano L. Rubinstein and Cindy J. Scribe, Rubinstein Law Group, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Todd S. Aagaard, U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., and Andrew B. Sabey and Scott B. Birkey, Cox, Castle & Nicholson, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees.