CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY v. BERNHARDT

No. 18-35629.

946 F.3d 553 (2019)

CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. David BERNHARDT, in his official capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior; U.S. Department of the Interior, Defendants-Appellees, Pacific Legal Foundation; Alaska Outdoor Council; Big Game Forever; Kurt Whitehead; Joe Letarte; Safari Club International; National Rifle Association of America, Inc.; State of Alaska Department of Law, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 30, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard M. Crystal (argued), Center for Biological Diversity, Washington, D.C.; Collette Adkins , Center for Biological Diversity, Circle Pines, Minnesota; for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Benjamin Mandel Shultz (argued), Attorney; Michael S. Raab and Tara S. Morrissey , Appellate Staff; Bryan Schroder , United States Attorney; Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General; Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellees.

David Deerson (argued), James S. Burling , Oliver J. Dunford , and Jeffrey W. McCoy , Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, California; Jonathan Wood and Todd F. Gaziano , Pacific Legal Foundation, Arlington, Virginia; Zacharia Olson , Yturri Rose LLP, Ontario, Oregon; for Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees Pacific Legal Foundation, Alaska Outdoor Council, Jonathan Wood Big Game Forever, Kurt Whitehead, and Joe Letarte.

Michael T. Jean , National Rifle Association of America, Fairfax, Virginia; Anna M. Seidman and Jeremy E. Clare , Safari Club International, Washington, D.C.; for Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees Safari Club International and National Rifle Association of America, Inc.

Cheryl Rawls Brooking and Jessica M. Alloway , Assistant Attorneys General, Alaska Department of Law, Anchorage, Alaska, for Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee State of Alaska Department of Law.

Before: Richard C. Tallman, Sandra S. Ikuta, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Enacted as part of the Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-121, 110 Stat. 847, the Congressional Review Act (CRA) was designed to give Congress an expedited procedure to review and disapprove federal regulations. 5 U.S.C. §§ 801-808. In 2017, Congress used this procedure...

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