ARIZONA CATTLE GROWERS' ASS'N v. SALAZAR

No. 08-15810.

606 F.3d 1160 (2010)

ARIZONA CATTLE GROWERS' ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ken SALAZAR, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Interior; H. Dale Hall, in his official capacity as Director of Fish & Wildlife Service; United States Department of the Interior; Paul K. Charlton; Eric H. Holder Jr., Attorney General, Defendants-Appellees, Center for Biological Diversity, Defendant-intervenor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 4, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman D. James, Fennemore Craig, Phoenix, AZ, for the plaintiff-appellant, Arizona Cattle Growers' Association.

Andrew C. Mergen, Rebecca Riley, & Robert H. Oakley, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for the defendant-appellee, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Karen Budd-Falen, Budd-Falen Law Offices, LLC, Cheyenne, WY, for amicus curiae, New Mexico Cattle Growers' Association.

Marc D. Fink, Center for Biological Diversity, Duluth, MN, and Matt Kenna, Western Environmental Law Center, Durango, CO, for defendant-intervenor-appellee, Center for Biological Diversity.

Before B. FLETCHER, WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR., and SUSAN P. GRABER, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

BETTY B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

Arizona Cattle Growers' Association ("Arizona Cattle") appeals from the district court's grant of summary judgment rejecting its challenge to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's ("FWS") designation of critical habitat for the Mexican Spotted Owl. Arizona Cattle argues that the FWS unlawfully designated areas containing no owls as "occupied" habitat and that the FWS calculated the economic impacts of the...

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