ELR Citation: ELR 20153
No(s). 06-35634 (9th Cir. Jun 26, 2008)

The Ninth Circuit held that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) does not have an enforceable duty to promptly withdraw the threatened marbled murrelet from the protections of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) after its five-year review found that the species does not fit into one of the several ...