United States v. 2009-03-06 | 07-71457 | ALASKA WILDERNESS V. KEMPTHORNE | precedential | opinion |

FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
 ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE;
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE
COUNCIL, INC.; PACIFIC
ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES
CENTER,
Petitioners, No. 07-71457 v.
DIRK KEMPTHORNE, et al.,
Respondent,
SHELL OFFSHORE, INC.,
Respondent-Intervenor. 
 RESISTING ENVIRONMENTAL
DESTRUCTION ON INDIGENOUS LANDS,
A PROJECT OF THE INDIGENOUS
ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK;
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL
DIVERSITY AND SIERRA CLUB,
Petitioners, No. 07-71989 
v.
DIRK KEMPTHORNE, et al.,
Respondent,
SHELL OFFSHORE, INC.,
Respondent-Intervenor. 
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 NORTH SLOPE BOROUGH; ALASKA
ESKIMO WHALING COMMISSION,
Petitioners, No. 07-72183
v. DOI No. 2007-152 DIRK KEMPTHORNE, et al., ORDER Respondent,
SHELL OFFSHORE, INC.,
Respondent-Intervenor. 
Filed March 6, 2009
Before: Dorothy W. Nelson, Stephen Reinhardt, and
Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.
ORDER
The opinion and dissent filed on November 20, 2008, and
published at 548 F.3d 815 (9th Cir. 2008), are hereby vacated
and withdrawn. Respondents’ petition for rehearing and sug-
gestion for rehearing en banc is denied as moot. All pending
motions to file amicus briefs in support of rehearing are like-
wise denied as moot. The opinion vacated and withdrawn will
be replaced by a new opinion. Our denial of the petition for
rehearing with suggestion for rehearing en banc is made with-
out prejudice to any party who may wish to file a petition for
rehearing or petition for rehearing en banc with regard to the
new opinion.
SO ORDERED.
2808 ALASKA WILDERNESS v. KEMPTHORNE

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