CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY v. U.S. FOREST

No. 17-15790.

925 F.3d 1041 (2019)

CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; Sierra Club; Grand Canyon Wildlands Council, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE, a United States Government Agency, Defendant-Appellee, National Rifle Association of America, Inc.; Safari Club International; National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc., Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 30, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allison LaPlante (argued), Lia Comerford , and Kevin Cassidy , Earthrise Law Center, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Allen M. Brabender (argued), Dustin J. Maghamfar , and John Smeltzer , Attorneys; Eric Grant , Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Jeffrey H. Wood , Acting Assistant Attorney General; Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Gary Fremerman , Office of the General Counsel, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.; for Defendant-Appellee.

Norman D. James (argued), and Ronald W. Opsahl , Fennemore Craig P.C., Phoenix, Arizona, for Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee National Shooting Sports Foundation.

Scott M. Franklin and C.D. Michel , Michel & Associates PC, Long Beach, California; Michael T. Jean , Fairfax, Virginia; for Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee National Rifle Association of America.

Anna M. Seidman , Washington, D.C., for Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee Safari Club International.

Before: Marsha S. Berzon and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges, and Kathleen Cardone, District Judge.


OPINION

The California condor and other scavenger wildlife species living in Arizona's Kaibab National Forest ("the Kaibab") ingest lead ammunition left in animal carcasses by hunters. The scavengers then suffer lead poisoning. Plaintiffs-Appellants Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, and Grand Canyon Wildlands...

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