National Ass'n of Home Builders v. Babbitt

ELR Citation: ELR 20707
No(s). 95-1973 RMU (D.D.C. Dec 6, 1996)

The court holds that the Endangered Species Act's (ESA's) prohibition on the "take" of endangered species is not unconstitutional as applied to purely local activities that affect a fly that exists only in California. The court first holds that the record clearly shows that wildlife in general, and ...