Safari Club International v. Jewell

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ROYCE C. LAMBERTH, United States District Judge

Plaintiffs in this case challenge a decision of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS” or “the Service”) to suspend imports of African elephant trophies sport-hunted in Zimbabwe. The suspension resulted from FWS’s preliminary and final determinations in 2014 that sport-hunting of African elephants intended for import to the United States would not enhance the survival of the species. See 2d Am. Compl. [Dkt. # 49] ¶¶ 1-3. These determinations reversed the agency’s prior position on the matter, see id, and plaintiffs…