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IN RE POLAR BEAR ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT LISTING

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

818 F.Supp.2d 214 (2011)

In re POLAR BEAR ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT LISTING AND § 4(D) RULE LITIGATION. This Document Relates To: Ctr. for Biological Diversity, et al. v. Salazar, et al., No. 08-2113; Defenders of Wildlife v. U.S. Dep't of the Interior, et al., No. 09-153.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

October 17, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anna Margo Seidman , Safari Club International, John C. Martin , 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, 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, Brendan R. Cummings , Kassia R. Siegel , 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.

Douglas Scott Burdin , Safari Club International, Thomas Richard Lundquist , Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs/Defendant.

Guillermo A. Montero , Kristen Byrnes Floom , Clifford Eugene Stevens, Jr. , Meredith L. Flax , Robert Pendleton Williams , Hao-Chin Hubert Yang , Erik Edward Petersen , U.S. Department of Justice, John F. Cooney , Margaret N. Strand, Venable, LLP, Rachel D. Gray , Roger R. Martella, Jr. , Thomas G. Echikson , 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 Defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

EMMET G. SULLIVAN, District Judge.

On May 15, 2008, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ("the Service" or "the agency") published its final rule listing the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act ("ESA"). See Determination of Threatened Status for the Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) Throughout Its Range, 73 Fed. Reg. 28,212 (May 15, 2008) ("Listing Rule"). This Court recently upheld the Listing...

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