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NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC.; The International Fund for Animal Welfare; Cetacean Society International; League for Coastal Protection; Ocean Futures Society; Jean-Michel Cousteau, Plaintiffs-Appellees, California Coastal Commission, Intervenor-Appellee, v. Donald C. WINTER, Secretary of the Navy; United States Department of the Navy; Carlos M. Gutierrez, Secretary of the Department of Commerce; National Marine Fisheries Services; William Hogarth, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration; Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., Administrator of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Defendants-Appellants.
    No. 08-55054.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    March 25, 2009.
    Ronald J. Tenpas (argued), Acting Assistant Attorney General; Kathryn E. Ko-vacs, Michael R. Eitel, Luther L. Hajek, and Allen M. Brabender, Appellate Section, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC; Craig D. Jensen and J. Page Turney, Office of General Counsel, Department of the Navy, for the federal defendants-appellants.
    Joel R. Reynolds, Andrew E. Wetzler, Cara A. Horowitz, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Santa Monica, California; Richard B. Kendall (argued), Gregory A. Fayer, and Josh B. Gordon, Irell and Manella LLP, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiffs-appellees.
    Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Thomas Greene, J. Matthew Rodriguez, Gordon Burns, Jamee Jordan Patterson (argued), Office of the Attorney General of California, for intervener-appellee California Coastal Commission.
    Theodore G. Meeker, Attorney at Law, Honolulu, Hawaii, for amicus curiae Honolulu Council of the Navy League of the United States.
    David K. Mears, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, Vermont, for amicus curiae Law Professors Hope Bab-cock, David Cassuto, Stephen Dycus, James R. May, Ann Powers, and Gerald Torres.
    Central District, of California, Santa Ana, D.C. No. CV-07-00335-FMC.
    Before: B. FLETCHER, D.W. NELSON, and STEPHEN REINHARDT, Circuit Judges.
   ORDER

We remand to the district court to comply with the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., — U.S. —, 129 S.Ct. 365, 172 L.Ed.2d 249 (2008).