Legal Opinion
Southwest Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 4, 1998No. Nos. 97-16768, 97-17110PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:
These consolidated appeals arise out of a controversy over an endangered subspecies of songbirds and the management of the waters of the Colorado River impounded behind a multipurpose Dam. ■
Southwest Center for Biological Diversity (“Southwest”) brought suit against Bruce Babbitt, the Secretary of the Interior (“the *517Secretary”), and the United States Bureau of Reclamation (“Reclamation”), alleging violations of the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”). The district court dismissed Southwest’s suit against Reclamation, ruling that Southwest did not satisfy jurisdictional…
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