United States Ninth Circuit

In an Endangered Species Act challenge to the Secretary of the Interior's removal of an animal from the endangered species list, summary judgment for Defendant is affirmed in part, where Defendant reasonably determined that one of the habitats at issue was not significant, but reversed in part, where Defendant failed to determine whether the animal was extinct throughout a "significant portion of its range."

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/16/2009
• Decided 05/18/2009
• Published 05/18/2009

Judges

• TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:, Before: JOHN T. NOONAN, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Neil Levine, Denver, CO, William J. Snape, III, Washington, DC, for plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sambhav N. Sankar, Environment & Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for defendants-appellees.