Legal Opinion
Conservation Force, Inc. v. Sally Jewell
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 20, 2013No. 11-5316PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Chief Judge GARLAND.
GARLAND, Chief Judge:
This appeal concerns the straight-horned markhor, an impressive subspecies of wild goat that inhabits an arid, mountainous region of Pakistan. Appellants are safari clubs, hunters, and international conservationists. For more than a decade, they pressed the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to take certain administrative actions regarding the markhor. They allege that the agency’s failure to take those actions was — among other things— arbitrary and capricious.
As tempting as it may be to consider an arbitrary and…
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