CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY v. FWS

No. 12-17530.

807 F.3d 1031 (2015)

CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE; Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Interior, Defendants-Appellees, Southern Nevada Water Authority; Coyote Springs Investment, LLC, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submission Vacated June 24, 2014.

Filed September 17, 2015.

Resubmitted for Decision September 9, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Buse (argued) and Lisa Belenky , Center for Biological Diversity, San Francisco, CA; William J. Snape, III , Center for Biological Diversity, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Ignacia S. Moreno , Assistant Attorney General, James J. Dubois , Coby Howell , Ellen J. Durkee , and Nina C. Robertson (argued), United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellees United States Fish & Wildlife Service and Sally Jewell.

Murray D. Feldman (argued), Holland & Hart, Boise, ID; Craig D. Galli , Holland & Hart, Salt Lake City, UT; Dana R. Walsh , Southern Nevada Water Authority, Las Vegas, NV, for Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee Southern Nevada Water Authority.

Kirk B. Lenhard , Scott M. Schoenwald , and Bradley J. Herrema , Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP, Las Vegas, NV, for Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee Coyote Springs Investment, LLC.

Before: MARY M. SCHROEDER and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges, and ROBERT W. PRATT, Senior District Judge.


OPINION

This case concerns Defendant-Appellee U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's ("FWS") decision to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement ("MOA") with several non-federal entities who were subject to a Nevada State Order mandating a groundwater pump test. FWS anticipated that the pump test may affect an endangered...

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