GIBBS v. BABBITT

No. 4 97-CV-41-BO.

31 F.Supp.2d 531 (1998)

Charles Gilbert GIBBS, Sr.; Richard Lee Mann; Hyde County, North Carolina; and Washington County, North Carolina, Plaintiffs, v. Bruce BABBITT, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, in his official capacity; U.S. Department of the Interior; Jamie Clark, Director U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in her official capacity; and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Federal Defendants, and Defenders of Wildlife, Defendant-Intervenor.

United States District Court, E.D. North Carolina, Eastern Division.

December 21, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Lawrence Davis, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, Pressly M. Millen, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, Christopher T. Graebe, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, Raleigh, Harvey W. Raynor, III, Belhaven, for Charles Gilbert Gibbs, Richard Lee Mann, III, Hyde County, North Carolina, Washington County, North Carolina, plaintiffs.

R.A. Renfer, Jr., Asst. U.S. Attorney, Office of U.S. Attorney, Raleigh, Kelly E. Mofield, Trial Attorney, Environment & Natural Resource Div., Wildlife & Marine Resources Sedction, Washington, DC, for Bruce Babbitt, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Defendants.

Derb S. Carter, Southern Environmental Law Center, Chapel Hill, Charles C. Carson, Environment & Natural Resource Div., Wildlife & Marine Resources Section, Washington, DC, for Secretary of the Interior, U.S. Department of the Interior, Defenders of Wildlife, Jamie Clark, defendants.


ORDER

BOYLE, Chief Judge.

This matter is before the Court on three motions for summary judgment: one each from the Plaintiffs, Federal Defendants, and Defendant-Intervenors. The underlying action, in its present form, is for relief from alleged violations of the Constitution, and especially the Tenth Amendment, by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service ("FWS"). Plaintiffs seek various forms of relief, including a declaration that all federal...

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