A district court held that NOAA Fisheries' 2008/2010 biological opinion (BiOp) for the Federal Columbia River Power System is arbitrary and capricious under the ESA. In the BiOp it issued to the…

The D.C. Circuit held that a single sighting of a protected species is insufficient to render a property "occupied" for purposes of designating critical habitat under the ESA. In 2007, the FWS…

The D.C. Circuit vacated the National Marine Fisheries Service's (NMFS') methodology for…

The Ninth Circuit held that a seafood processor association may not intervene in…

A district court, in a 116-page opinion, upheld the FWS' final rule listing the polar bear…

A district court held that the FWS' biological opinion (BiOp) for the U.S.…

A district court held that the U.S. Forest…

A district court, on a motion to amend judgment, extended the FWS' deadline…

The Ninth Circuit held that a U.S. Forest Service decision that a proposed mining operation…

The Tenth Circuit held that an individual's conviction under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act for unlawfully possessing 141 eagle feathers does not violate the Religious Freedom…