Legal Opinion
Alaska Wilderness League v. Jewell
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided April 17, 2015No. Civil Action No. 2014-1886PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JOHN D. BATES, United States District Judge
There are no Pacific walruses in Washington, D.C. — not even at the National Zoo. See Meet Our Animals: Mammals at the National Zoo, Smithsonian Nat’l Zoological Park, http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ Animals/Animallndex/mammals.cfm. And yet this case is about Pacific walruses. Plaintiff Alaska Wilderness League and other environmental groups brought the case to challenge a United States Fish and Wildlife Service regulation that allows certain oil and gas industry players to unintentionally “take” (that is to say, harm, harass, or disturb…
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