NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION v. DEPT. OF INTERIOR

Case Nos. 2:11-cv-578-FtM-29CM, 2:11-cv-647-FtM-29CM.

46 F.Supp.3d 1254 (2014)

NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION and John Adornato, III, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR, National Park Service, and United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Defendants. Safari Club International, Florida Wildlife Federation, and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Defendants-Intervenors. Public Employees For Environmental Responsibility, Florida Biodiversity Project, Sierra Club, South Florida Wildlands Association, Wilderness Watch, and Brian Scherf, Plaintiffs, v. Kenneth Salazar, Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior, Jonathan B. Jarvis, Director, National Park Service, and Daniel M. Ashe, Director, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Defendants. Safari Club International, Florida Wildlife Federation, and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Defendants-Intervenors.

United States District Court, M.D. Florida, Fort Myers Division.

Signed September 19, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcy Lahart , Marcy I. Lahart, PA, Gainesville, FL, Robert D. Rosenbaum , Eric R. Glitzenstein , William S. Eubanks, II , Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal, Paula Dinerstein , Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Washington, DC, Matthew P. Farmer , Farmer & Fitzgerald, PA, Tampa, FL, for Plaintiffs.

Mark Arthur Brown , U.S. Department of Justice, Sara Porsia , Natural Resources Section, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, Kyle Scott Cohen , U.S. Attorney's Office, Fort Myers, FL, for Defendants.

Anna M. Seidman , Douglas S. Burdin , Birch, Horton, Bittner and Cherot, P.C., Washington, DC, Eric M. Sodhi , Richman Greer, PA, Miami, FL, Thomas W. Reese , Law Office of Thomas W. Reese, St. Petersburg, FL, Jonathan Alan Glogau , Office of the Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, for Intervenor-Defendant.


OPINION AND ORDER

This matter comes before the Court on five cross motions for summary judgment in these consolidated cases. Then-magistrate judge Sheri Polster Chappell filed a seventy-nine page Report and Recommendation (Doc. # 123)1 on January 31, 2013, recommending that Plaintiffs...

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