Opinion
No. 07-13829.
May 7, 2010.
James Edward Nutt, South Fla. Water Management Dist., West Palm Beach, FL, Ellen J. Durkee, Andrew J. Doyle, Lisa E. Jones, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Env. Natural Res. Div., Appellate Section, Washington, DC, Jonathan Alan Glogau, Fla. Atty. General's Office, Tallahassee, FL, Daniel H. Thompson, Berger, Singerman, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, Rick J. Burgess, Gunster, Yoakley Stewart, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, FL, Timothy S. Bishop, Mayer, Brown, LLP, Chicago, IL, John A. Bryson, Holland Hart, LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.
Dione C. Carroll, Miami, FL, David George Guest, Monica K. Reiner, Earth Justice Legal Defense Fund, Tallahassee, FL, Dexter W. Lehtinen, Lechtinen Riedi Brooks Moncarz, P.A., Sonia Escobio O'Donnell, Jorden Burt, LLP, David P. Reiner, Reiner Reiner, P.A., Miami, FL, John E. Childe, Palmyra, PA, for Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Cross-Appellees, Defendant-Appellant, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellants.
Catherine Derdeyn Little, Hunton Williams, Atlanta, GA, William Perry Pendley, Mountain States Legal Foundation, Lakewood, CO, Charles R. Sensiba, Van Ness Feldman, P.C., Washington, DC, Stephen R. Farris, Atty. Gen. of NM, Santa Fe, NM, Steven Geoffrey Gieseler, Pac. Legal Foundation, Stuart, FL, Alan H. Kleinman, N.Y. City Law Dept., New York, NY, Kenneth G. Spillias. Lewis, Longman Walker, PA, West Palm Beach, FL, Daniel E. Estrin, Pace Environmental Lit. Clinic, Inc., White Plains, NY, James Patrick Longest, Jr., Duke University School of Law. Durham, NC, Richard P. Mather, Sr., Pa. Dept. of Environmental Protection, Harrisburg, PA, Lauren Elizabeth Brown, Waterkeeper Alliance, Irvington, NY, Peter D. Nichols, Trout, Raley, Montano, Witwer Freeman, PC, Denver, CO, Kenneth Hayman, Fla. Dept. of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, FL, P. Stephen Gidiere, III, Balch Bingham, LLP, Birmingham, AL, Sam Kalen, Van Ness Feldman, P.C., Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (No. 02-80309 CV-CMA); Cecilia M. Altonaga, Judge.
Before DUBINA, Chief Judge, TJOFLAT, EDMONDSON, BIRCH, BLACK, CARNES, BARKETT, HULL, MARCUS, WILSON, PRYOR and MARTIN, Circuit Judges.
The Court having been polled at the request of one of the members of the Court and a majority of the Circuit Judges who are in regular active service not having voted in favor of it (Rule 35, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure), the Suggestion of Rehearing En Banc is DENIED.