Case Name: 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
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-03-25
Citations: 560 F.3d 1027
Docket Number: No. 08-55054
Parties: 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.
Judges: Before: B. FLETCHER, D.W. NELSON, and STEPHEN REINHARDT, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 3d Series
Volume: 560
Pages: 1027–1028

Head Matter:
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 De fense 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.

Opinion:
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).