United States Ninth Circuit

In a suit by environmental groups seeking to enjoin the implementation of a federal statute that orders the Secretary of the Interior to remove a portion of a distinct population of gray wolves from the protections of the Endangered Species Act, the district court's grant of summary judgment to the government defendants is affirmed, where: 1) the statute was an amendment of law applicable to pending litigation; and 2) the statute was entitled to be enforced, as it did not violate the separation of powers doctrine.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/14/2012
• Published 03/14/2012

Judges

• Schroeder

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James J. Tutchton, David C. Shilton