ELR Citation: ELR 20570
No(s). C00-1547R (W.D. Wash. Feb 27, 2002)

The court holds that some of an environmental group's challenges to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Endangered Species Act (ESA) take prohibition exemptions regarding salmon are not ripe, and that the NMFS was not arbitrary or capricious in promulgating the ESA §4(d) rule. The court fi...