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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

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY,

a non-profit corporation, and

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER, a

non-profit corporation,

Plaintiffs,

 v.

U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE, and

GALE A. NORTON, Secretary of the Interior,

Defendants. /

No. C 04-04324 WHA

ORDER REGARDING 

SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEFING

All parties shall please submit supplemental memoranda, addressing the following:

1. What in the record shows the harm, if any, or the good, if any, to

the California Tiger Salamander flowing from routine ranching activities? Please

distinguish between the administrative record and the litigation record. Please

faithfully summarize and avoid “spin.” Do not overstate or understate the

evidence. 

2. If a remand occurs, either voluntarily or after reaching the merits,

does the Court have the authority to vacate all of the rule but to allow ranchers,

pending the remand, to continue routine ranching activities? 

Please file by JULY 29 AT NOON. Copies should be brought directly to chambers. Parties

are limited to five pages each. All intervenors count as one party and may submit five pages

total. 

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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Memoranda should be double-spaced, in twelve-point-font and should not include footnotes. 

Please do not submit declarations or appendices. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 19, 2005. WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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