United States Fish And Wildlife Service

• National Association of Home Builders, Et Al., Appellants, v. Bruce Babbitt, Secretary, United States Department of Interior and Mollie Beattie, Director, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Appellees., 130 F.3d 1041 (D.C. Cir. 1997)

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia; No. 95cv01973. Thomas C. Jackson argued the cause for appellants, with who...

• Federal Circuits

• Draft Policy on Interpretation of the Phrase “Significant Portion of Its Range” in the Endangered Species Act's Definitions of “Endangered Species” and “Threatened Species”

We, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively, the Services), announce a draft policy to provide our interpretation of the phrase ``significant portion of its range'' in the Endangered Species Act's (Act's) definitions of ``endangered species'' and ``threatened species.'' The purpose of this notice is to provide a draft interpretation and application of ``significant portion of its range'' that reflects a permissible reading of the law and its legislative history and minimizes undesirable policy outcomes, while fulfilling the conservation purposes of the Act. We seek public comments on this draft policy. It is our intent to publish a final policy that will provide a consistent standard for interpretation of the phras...

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 76987, December 09, 2011
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• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Alabama-Tombigbee Rivers Coalition, an Alabama Nonprofit Corporation, Parker Towing Company, Inc., an Alabama Corporation, Charles A. Haun, an Individual, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior, Sam Hamilton, Regional Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an Agency of the United States Department of the Interior, Steve Williams, Director of Fish and Wildlife Service, Defendants-Appellees., 477 F.3d 1250 (11th Cir. 2007)

Thomas Lee Casey, III, Robert P. Fowler, Jeffrey Heath Wood, William Hughes Satterfield, Balch & Bingham, LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellan...

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• 16 USC 742 - Sec. 742b. United States Fish and Wildlife Service

• U.S. Code - Title 16: Conservation

• Northwest Ecosystem Alliance; Center for Biological Diversity; Tahoma Audubon Society, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service; Dave Allen, Regional Director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Steve Williams, Director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Gale Norton, Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Defendants-Appellees., 475 F.3d 1136 (9th Cir. 2007)

Brent Plater, Center for Biological Diversity, San Francisco, CA, Stephanie M. Parent, Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center, Portland, Oregon, for th...

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• Forest Guardians, a Nonprofit Corporation; Sinapu, a Nonprofit Corporation; Center for Native Ecosystems, a Nonprofit Corporation; Animal Protection of New Mexico, a Nonprofit Corporation; Animal Protection Institute, a Nonprofit Corporation; and Carson Forest Watch, a Nonprofit Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Harv Forsgren, Regional Forester, U.S. Forest Service Region 3; United States Forest Service, a Federal Agency; Ann M. Veneman, Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture; United States Department of Agriculture, a Federal Department; Gale Norton, Secretary of United States Department of Interior; United States Department of the Interior, a Federal Department; Steven Williams, Director, United States Fish and Wildlife Service; United States Fish and Wildlife Service, a Federal Agency; H. Dale Hall, Director, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 2, Defendants-Appellees., 478 F.3d 1149 (10th Cir. 2007)

Matthew K. Bishop, Western Environmental Law Center, Taos, NM, for Plaintiffs-Appellants. Mark R. Haag, Attorney (Kelly A. Johnson, Assistant Attorne...

• Federal Circuits

• the Wilderness Society and the Alaska Center for the Environment, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service, an Agency of the United States, Defendant-Appellee., 316 F.3d 913 (9th Cir. 2003)

Kathryn E. Kovacs, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the defendant-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Distr...

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• State of Maine, Et Al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Director, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Et Al., Defendants, Defenders of Wildlife, Et Al., Movants, Appellants., 262 F.3d 13 (1st Cir. 2001)

APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE [Hon. Gene Carter, U.S. District Judge] Howard M. Crystal with whom Eric R. Gl...

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• State of Maine, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Department of Commerce, and National Marine Fisheries Service, Defendants, Appellants., 285 F.3d 126 (1st Cir. 2002)

Christopher C. Taub, Assistant Attorney General of Maine, with whom Paul Stern, Deputy Attorney General of Maine, and G. Steven Rowe, Attorney General...

• Federal Circuits

• State of Maine, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Department of Commerce, and National Marine Fisheries Service, Defendants, Appellants., 298 F.3d 60 (1st Cir. 2002)

Christopher C. Taub, Assistant Attorney General of Maine, with whom Paul Stern, Deputy Attorney General of Maine, and G. Steven Rowe, Attorney General...

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