United States v. 2009-03-25 | 08-55054 | NRDC V. WINTER | precedential | opinion |

FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
 NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE
COUNCIL, INC.; THE INTERNATIONAL
FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE;
CETACEAN SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL;
LEAGUE FOR COASTAL PROTECTION;
OCEAN FUTURES SOCIETY; JEAN-
MICHEL COUSTEAU,
Plaintiffs-Appellees,
CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION,
Intervenor-Appellee, No. 08-55054
v. D.C. No.
CV-07-00335-FMC DONALD C. WINTER, Secretary of
Central District the Navy; UNITED STATES  of California, DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY; CARLOS
Santa Ana M. GUTIERREZ, Secretary of the
Department of Commerce; ORDER
NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES
SERVICES; WILLIAM HOGARTH,
Assistant Administrator for
Fisheries of the National
Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Administration; CONRAD C.
LAUTENBACHER, JR., Administrator
of the National Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Administration,
Defendants-Appellants. 
On Remand From The United States Supreme Court
Filed March 25, 2009
3767

-- 1 of 4 --

Before: Betty B. Fletcher, Dorothy W. Nelson, and
Stephen Reinhardt, Circuit Judges.
COUNSEL
Ronald J. Tenpas (argued), Acting Assistant Attorney Gen-
eral; Kathryn E. Kovacs, Michael R. Eitel, Luther L. Hajek,
and Allen M. Brabender, Appellate Section, U.S. Department
of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Wash-
ington, D.C.; Craig D. Jensen and J. Page Turney, Office of
General Counsel, Department of the Navy, for the federal
defendants-appellants.
Joel R. Reynolds, Andrew E. Wetzler, Cara A. Horowitz, Nat-
ural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Santa Monica, Califor-
nia; Richard B. Kendall (argued), Gregory A. Fayer, and Josh
B. Gordon, Irell and Manella LLP, Los Angeles, California,
for the plaintiffs-appellees.
Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Thomas Greene, J. Matthew Rodri-
guez, Gordon Burns, Jamee Jordan Patterson (argued), Office
of the Attorney General of California, for intervener-appellee
California Coastal Commission.
Theodore G. Meeker, Attorney at Law, Honolulu, Hawaii, for
amicus curiae Honolulu Council of the Navy League of the
United States.
David K. Mears, Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Clinic, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, Vermont, for
amicus curiae Law Professors Hope Babcock, David Cassuto,
Stephen Dycus, James R. May, Ann Powers, and Gerald Tor-
res.
3768 NRDC v. WINTER

-- 2 of 4 --

ORDER
We remand to the district court to comply with the United
States Supreme Court’s decision in Winter v. Natural
Resources Defense Council, Inc., 129 S. Ct. 365 (2008).
3769 NRDC v. WINTER

-- 3 of 4 --

PRINTED FOR
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE—U.S. COURTS
BY THOMSON REUTERS/WEST—SAN FRANCISCO
The summary, which does not constitute a part of the opinion of the court, is copyrighted
© 2009 Thomson Reuters/West.

-- 4 of 4 --