DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE v. SALAZAR

Nos. CV 09-77-M-DWM, CV 09-82-M-DWM.

812 F.Supp.2d 1205 (2009)

DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Humane Society of the United States, Center for Biological Diversity, Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, Friends of the Clearwater, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Oregon Wild, Cascadia Wildlands, Western Watersheds Project, Wildlands Network, and Hells Canyon Preservation Council, Plaintiffs, v. Ken SALAZAR, Secretary of the Interior, Rowan Gould, Acting U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director, and United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Defendants. Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Plaintiff, v. Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, Rowan Gould, Acting U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director, and United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Montana, Missoula Division.

September 8, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas L. Honnold , Jenny K. Harbine , Timothy J. Preso , Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Brian K. Gallik , Goetz, Gallik & Baldwin, Bozeman, MT, Deborah A. Sivas , Robb W. Kapla , Environmental Law Clinic, Mills Legal Clinic at Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA, for Plaintiffs.

Michael Richard Eitel , U.S. Department of Justice, Denver, CO, Victoria L. Francis , Office of the U.S. Attorney, Billings, MT, for Defendants.


ORDER

DONALD W. MOLLOY, Chief Judge.

I. Introduction

This Order is not a final determination of any issue in the case. The Order only addresses the propriety of granting the extraordinary relief of a preliminary injunction. Winter v. Natural Res. Def. Council, Inc., 555 U.S. 7, 129 S.Ct. 365, 374, 172 L.Ed.2d 249 (2008). Nor is the Order a complete analysis of the complex legal questions the parties raise...

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