Center for Biological Diversity v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service

1 WO 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Center for Biological Diversity, No. CV-22-00286-TUC-JGZ 10 Plaintiff, ORDER 11 v. 12 United States Fish and Wildlife Service, et al., 13 Defendants. 14 Plaintiff Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) filed this action against Defendants 15 United States Fish and Wildlife Service and Debra Haaland (collectively FWS), pursuant 16 to 16 U.S.C. § 1540(c) and (g), challenging FWS’s denial of CBD’s second petition to 17 protect the Tucson shovel-nosed snake under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). (See Doc. 18 1.)…