Greater Yellowstone Coalition v. Babbitt

Full title: GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION; JACKSON HOLE ALLIANCE FOR RESPONSIBLE…

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Date published: May 6, 1999

175 F.3d 1149 (9th Cir. 1999)

Opinion

Nos. 98-36151, 98-36152

Argued and Submitted April 13, 1999 — Seattle, Washington.

Filed May 6, 1999

COUNSEL

James S. Angell, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Bozeman, Montana, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Andrew Mergen, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.

John E. Bloomquist, Doney, Crowley, Bloomquist Uda, Helena, Montana, for the intervenors-appellees.

Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Montana, Charles C. Lovell, District Judge, Presiding, D.C. No. CV-96-00082-CCL, D.C. No. CV-97-00030-CCL.

Before: Harry Pregerson and David R. Thompson, Circuit Judges, and Robert J. Kelleher,¹ Senior District Judge.

1 The Honorable Robert J. Kelleher, Senior United States District Judge for the Central District of California, sitting by designation.

ORDER

[2] We affirm for reasons set forth in the district court's well-reasoned opinion and order reported at Intertribal Bison Cooperative, et al., v. Babbitt, 25 F. Supp.2d 1135 (D. Mont. 1998).

SO ORDERED.