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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 16:1538 Endangered Species Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA; BUILDING

INDUSTRY LEGAL DEFENSE 

FOUNDATION; CALIFORNIA BUILDING

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION; CALIFORNIA

STATE GRANGE; GREENHORN GRANGE,

NO. CIV. S-05-1363 LKK/JFM

Plaintiff,

v. O R D E R

UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE

SERVICE; MATTHEW J. HOGAN, Acting

Director of the United States Fish

and Wildlife Service, in his 

official capacity; UNITED STATES

DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR; and GALE A.

NORTON, Secretary of the United

States Department of Interior, in

her official capacity,

Defendants.

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CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY;

CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; and

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL,

Defendants-Intervenors.

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1 The instant suit seeks to vacate twenty-seven critical habit

designation. The complaint seeks, inter alia, a declaration that

each designation was promulgated in violation of the Endangered

Species Act. Proposed intervenors explain that they are

responsible for filing administrative petitions or lawsuits which

resulted in most of the listing of the species in this case, and

that they are responsible for the designation of critical habitat

for all of the twenty-seven species. Mot. at 3. As the

conservation groups explain, they have a right to intervene in this

case as plaintiffs challenge the critical habitat designations that

the conservation groups fought to establish through litigation.

Mot. at 10. See Idaho Farm Bureau Fed’n v. Babbit, 58 F.3d 1392,

1397 (9th Cir. 1995)(“[a] public interest group is entitled as a

matter of right to intervene in an action challenging the legality

of a measure it has supported.”).

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A hearing on this case is scheduled for August 29, 2005 at

10:00 a.m., on the Law and Motion Calendar of this court pursuant

to the Center for Biological Diversity’s and National Resources

Defense Council’s (collectively “conservation groups”) motion to

intervene. 

Plaintiffs and defendants have both submitted statements of

non-opposition to the motion. Further, the court has reviewed the

motion and finds that proposed intervenors must be permitted to

intervene as of right.1

Accordingly, the court hereby ORDERS that:

1. The conservation groups’ motion to intervene is GRANTED;

and

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2. The hearing scheduled for August 29, 2005 in the abovecaptioned case is VACATED.

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: August 17, 2005

/s/Lawrence K. Karlton 

LAWRENCE K. KARLTON

SENIOR JUDGE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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