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IN RE POLAR BEAR ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT LISTING

Misc. Action No. 08-764 (EGS). MDL Docket No. 1993.

748 F.Supp.2d 19 (2010)

In re POLAR BEAR ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT LISTING AND § 4(D) RULE LITIGATION. This Document Relates To: All Cases.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

November 4, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas Scott Burdin , Anna Margo Seidman , Safari Club International, Washington, DC, for Polar Bear Endangered Species Act Listing and § 4(D) Rule Litigation/Plaintiff.

Bradley E. Meyen , Assistant Attorney General, Department of Law, Anchorage, AK, Craig D. Galli , Holland & Hart LLP, Salt Lake City, UT, M. Reed Hopper , Theodore Hadzi-Antich , Damien M. Schiff , Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA, Murray D. Feldman , Holland & Hart LLP, Boise, ID, John C. Martin , Thomas Richard Lundquist , Crowell & Moring LLP, Benjamin Ellison , Patton Boggs, LLP, Michael B. Wigmore , Bingham McCutchen LLP, Benjamin Longstreth , Natural Resources Defense Council, Jason C. Rylander , Defenders of Wildlife, Howard M. Crystal , Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal, Washington, DC, Brendan R. Cummings , Kassia R. Siegel , Center for Biological Diversity, Joshua Tree, CA, Andrew Elsas Wetzler , Rebecca Riley , Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Chicago, IL, John J. Jackson, III , Conservation Force, Metairie, LA, for Plaintiffs.

Guillermo A. Montero , Kristen Byrnes Floom , Clifford Eugene Stevens, Jr. , Meredith L. Flax , Robert Pendleton Williams , Hao-Chin Hubert Yang, U.S. Department of Justice, John F. Cooney , Margaret N. Strand , Venable, LLP, Rachel D. Gray , Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC, Jeffrey M. Feldman , Kevin M. Cuddy , Feldman Orlansky & Sanders, Anchorage, AK, for Defendants.

Jeffrey W. Leppo , Ryan P. Steen , Stoel Rives LLP, Seattle, WA, Joseph Michael Klise , Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, DC, for Intervenor Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

EMMET G. SULLIVAN, District Judge.

In May 2008, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ("FWS") issued its final rule listing the polar bear as a "threatened" species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, which affords special protections to endangered and threatened fish and wildlife species. See Determination of Threatened Status for the Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) Throughout Its Range, 72 Fed.Reg. 28,212 (May 15...

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