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ARANSAS PROJECT v. SHAW

No. 13-40317.

756 F.3d 801 (2014)

The ARANSAS PROJECT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Bryan SHAW, in His Official Capacity as Chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; Buddy Garcia, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; Carlos Rubinstein, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; Mark Vickery, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; Al Segovia, in His Official Capacity as South Texas Watermaster, Defendants-Appellants, Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority; Texas Chemical Council; San Antonio River Authority, Intervenors Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 30, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Blackburn, Jr. , Blackburn Carter, P.C., Mary B. Conner , Attorney, Charles William Irvine , Attorney, Irvine & Conner, P.L.L.C., David Alfred Kahne , Law Office of David A. Kahne, Charles Patrick Waites , Johnson, Deluca, Kurisky & Gould, P.C., Houston, TX, John Jeffery Mundy , Mundy Firm, P.L.L.C., Austin, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Jonathan F. Mitchell , Solicitor General, Evan Scott Greene , Office of the Attorney General, Office of the Solicitor General, Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellants.

Aaron Michael Streett , Michelle Shamblin Stratton , Baker Botts, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Molly Jan Cagle, Esq. , Carlos Ricardo Romo, Esq. , Evan A. Young , Attorney, Baker Botts, L.L.P., Edward F. Fernandes , Attorney, Hunton & Williams, L.L.P., Kenneth R. Ramirez , Counsel, Law Offices of Ken Ramirez, Amy L. Saberian , Enoch Kever, P.L.L.C., Edmond Robert McCarthy, Jr., Esq. , Jackson, Sjoberg, McCarthy & Townsend, L.L.P., Austin, TX, Kathy E.B. Robb , Attorney, Hunton & Williams, L.L.P., New York, NY, Kathryn Smyth Snapka, Esq. , Trial Attorney, Snapka Law Firm, Corpus Christi, TX, Bruce Wasinger, Seguin, TX, David Wesley Ross, Esq. , Law Offices of David Ross, P.C., San Antonio, TX, for Intervenors Defendants-Appellants.

Russell S. Johnson, Esq. , Carl Ryan Galant, Esq. , McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, L.L.P., Amy Marie Emerson , Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle & Townsend, P.C., Michael J. Booth , Booth, Ahrens & Werkenthin, Sydney W. Falk, Jr. , Bickerstaff, Heath, Delgado & Acosta, L.L.P., Mario Loyola , Lyn Elizabeth-Raue Clancy, General Counsel, Austin, TX, Amicus Curiae.

Before JONES, SMITH, and GARZA, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

After the deaths of some whooping cranes — an endangered species — The Aransas Project ("TAP") sued directors of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality ("TCEQ") under the Endangered Species Act ("ESA" or the "Act"). TAP sought and was granted an injunction prohibiting TCEQ from issuing new permits to withdraw water from rivers that feed the estuary where the cranes make their winter home....

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