LEAGUE UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS v. WHEELER

No. 17-71636.

922 F.3d 443 (2019)

LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS; Pesticide Action Network North America; Natural Resources Defense Council; California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation; Farmworkers Association of Florida; Farmworker Justice GreenLatinos; Labor Council for Latin American Advancement; Learning Disabilities Association of America; National Hispanic Medical Association; Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste; United Farm Workers, Petitioners, State of New York; State of Maryland; State of Vermont; State of Washington; Commonwealth of Massachusetts; District of Columbia; State of California; State of Hawaii, Intervenors, v. Andrew WHEELER, Acting Administrator of United States Environmental Protection Agency; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 19, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patti A. Goldman (argued), Marisa C. Ordonia , and Kristen L. Boyles , Earthjustice, Seattle, Washington, for Petitioners.

Andrea Oser (argued), Deputy Solicitor General; Frederick A. Brodie , Assistant Solicitor General of Counsel; Barbara D. Underwood , Solicitor General; Office of the Attorney General, Albany, New York;

Brian E. Frosh , Attorney General; Steven M. Sullivan , Solicitor General; Office of the Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland; Thomas J. Donovan Jr. , Attorney General; Nicholas F. Persampieri , Assistant Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Montpelier, Vermont; Robert W. Ferguson , Attorney General; William R. Sherman , Counsel for Environmental Protection; Attorney General's Office, Seattle, Washington; Maura Healey , Attorney General; I. Andrew Goldberg , Assistant Attorney General; Environmental Protection Division, Office of the Attorney General, Boston, Massachusetts; Karl A. Racine , Attorney General; Brian R. Caldwell , Assistant Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Washington, D.C.; Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Susan S. Fiering , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Reed Sato , Deputy Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Sacramento, California; Russell A. Suzuki , Acting Attorney General; Wade H. Hargrove III , Deputy Attorney General; Ewan C. Rayner , Deputy Solicitor General; Department of the Attorney General, Honolulu, Hawaii; for Intervenors.

Jonathan Brightbill , Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Erica M. Zilioli , and Phillip R. Dupré , Attorneys; Jeffrey H. Wood , Acting Assistant Attorney General; Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Mark Dyner , Office of the General Counsel, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.; for Respondents.

Donald C. McLean , Sylvia G. Costelloe , Kathleen R. Heilman , and Stanley H. Abramson , Arent Fox LLP, Washington, D.C.; Christopher Landau P.C. and Archith Ramkumar , Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae Dow Agrosciences LLC.

Susan J. Kraham and Edward Lloyd , Attorneys; Tess Dernbach , and Laura Keeley , Legal Interns; Morningside Heights Legal Services, Columbia Environmental Clinic, New York, New York, for Amicus Curiae Congressman Henry Waxman.

Shaun A. Goho , Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for Amici Curiae Health Professional Organizations.

David Y. Chung , Elizabeth B. Dawson , and Kristen L. Nathanson , Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae Agribusiness Council of Indiana, Agricultural Retailers Association, Almond Alliance of California, American Farm Bureau Federation, AmericanHort, American Seed Trade Association, American Soybean Association, American Sugarbeet Growers Association, Beet Sugar Development Foundation, California Alfalfa & Forage Association, California Citrus Mutual, California Cotton Ginners and Growers Association, California Fresh Fruit Association, California Specialty Crops Council, Cranberry Institute, Minnesota Soybean Growers Association, National Agricultural Aviation Association, National Association of Wheat Growers, National Corn Growers Association, National Cotton Council, National Sorghum Producers, Northwest Horticultural Council, Oregonians for Food & Shelter, Washington Friends of Farms & Forests, Western Agricultural Processors Association, Western Growers, Western Plant Health Association, and Wyoming Agricultural Business Association.

Kathryn E. Szmuszkovicz and Andrew C. Stilton , Beveridge & Diamond P.C., Washington, D.C.; Doreen Manchester , Deputy General Counsel; Rachel Lattimore, Sr. Vice President & General Counsel; CropLife America, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae CropLife America.

Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, and M. Margaret McKeown, Kim McLane Wardlaw, Richard A. Paez, Carlos T. Bea, Morgan Christen, Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Paul J. Watford, John B. Owens, Michelle T. Friedland, and Mark J. Bennett, Circuit Judges.


ORDER

In its opening brief, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)1 requested, as alternative relief, the issuance of a Writ of Mandamus. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conceded at oral argument that we may consider LULAC's request as a Petition for a Writ of Mandamus, and it had a full opportunity to respond. In view of the circumstances presented by the petition, we exercise our discretion to construe the opening...

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