United States DC Circuit

Detention of several shipments of bigleaf mahogany from Brazil was authorized by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, and the Endangered Species Act; more than facial satisfaction of 50 C.F.R. section 23.14(a) was reasonably required when determining whether the export permits were "valid" under section 23.12(a)(3)(i).

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/12/2004
• Decided 04/30/2004
• Published 04/30/2004

Judges

• Before:  EDWARDS and HENDERSON, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Patrick D. Traylor argued the cause for appellants.   With him on the briefs was James T. Banks.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles W. Scarborough, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for federal appellees.   With him on the brief were Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Roscoe C. Howard, Jr., U.S. Attorney, and Mark B. Stern, Attorney., William J. Snape III and William Carroll Muffett were on the brief for amici curiae Defenders of Wildlife, et al. in support of appellees.