Anderson v. Evans

by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

371 F.3d 475

WILL ANDERSON; FUND FOR ANIMALS; HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES; AUSTRALIANS FOR ANIMALS; CETACEAN SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL; WEST COAST ANTI-WHALING SOCIETY; SANDRA ABELS; CINDY HANSEN; PATRICIA NESS; ROBERT NESS; LISA LAMB; MARGARET OWENS; CHARLES OWENS; PENINSULA CITIZENS FOR THE PROTECTION OF WHALES; DAN SPOMER; SUE MILLER; STEPH DUTTON, Plaintiffs-Appellants

v.

DONALD EVANS, Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce; CONRAD LAUTENBACHER, Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; WILLIAM HOGARTH, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service, Defendants-Appellees, MAKAH INDIAN TRIBE, Defendant-intervenor-Appellee.

No. 02-35761

United States Court of Appeals,
Ninth Circuit.

October 28, 2002, Argued and Submitted
December 20, 2002, Filed
As Amended November 26, 2003
As Amended June 7, 2004.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. D.C. No. CV-02-00081-FDB. Franklin D. Burgess, District Judge, Presiding. Anderson v. Evans, 314 F.3d 1006, 2002 U.S. App. LEXIS 26371 (9th Cir. Wash., 2002)

Eric R. Giltzenstein and Kimberly D. Ockene, Meyer & Glitzenstein, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Robert H. Oakley, Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.

John B. Arum, Ziontz, Chestnut, Varnell, Berley & Slonim, Seattle, Washington, for the defendant-intervenor-appellee.

Before: James C. Hill,^[1] Ronald M. Gould and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges. Opinion by Judge Berzon for sections I and II; Opinion by Judge Gould for sections III and IV.

Footnotes

1. The Honorable James C. Hill, Senior United States Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, sitting by designation.