United States Ninth Circuit
California Sea Urchin Committee v. Bean, 14-55580
In a suit brought by commercial fishing groups' alleging that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated its statutory authority under Public Law 99-625 by terminating a translocation program for the southern sea otter, the District Court's dismissal on timeliness grounds is reversed where plaintiffs' challenge, filed in 2013, was timely because the operative agency action challenged was the Fish and Wildlife Service's 2012 promulgation of a rule terminating the translocation program.
Appellate Information
- Published 2016/07/12
Judges
- GOULD
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit