West Coast Seafood Processors Assn. v. Natural Resources Defense Council

ELR Citation: 41 ELR 20228
No(s). 09-16245, -16796 (9th Cir. Jul 6, 2011)

The Ninth Circuit held that a seafood processor association may not intervene in environmental groups' lawsuit challenging the National Marine Fisheries Service's program to preserve groundfish species off the coast of California, Oregon, and Washington. A lower court denied the association's m...