ELR Citation: 55 ELR 20007
No(s). 23-3026 (9th Cir. Jan 10, 2025)

In an unpublished opinion, the Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for FWS in a challenge to its decision not to list the Tucson shovel-nosed snake as endangered under the ESA. An environmental group petitioned FWS to list the species in 2004, and again in 2020 after the Service rejected the ini...