159 Search ResultsKeyword: diversity Center for Biological Diversity v. Ryan Zinke Case No. 3:17-cv-00091-SLGAlaska Represented plaintiff in action against the United States Department of the Interior challenging the constitutionality of the Congressional Review Act and Public Law 115-20 (disapproving the Refuges Rule). The Refuges Rule restricted the use of certain inhumane predator control, hunting and trapping methods in National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska. Center for Biological Diversity v. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Case No. 18-2-02766-34Thurston County Superior CourtOlympia, Washington Won preliminary injunction in ongoing litigation against the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to stop it from continuing to issue illegal permits allowing the use of bait, traps and hounds to kill black bears, in violation of citizen initiatives passed to ban cruel hunting practices. Center for Biological Diversity v. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Case No. 17-2-06105-34Thurston County Superior CourtOlympia, Washington Represent petitioners in suit against the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for withholding thousands of documents in response to a public disclosure request for information related to its wolf lethal control program. State has admitted liability and penalty phase is pending. Center for Biological Diversity and Cascadia Wildlands v. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Case No. 17-2-05206-34Thurston County Superior CourtOlympia, Washington Represented petitioners in challenge to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's decision to kill members the Sherman wolf pack, contending that its program to kill endangered gray wolves was arbitrary and capricious and ignored scientific findings, and seeking to halt the program until it was brought into compliance with the State Environmental Policy Act and the Administrative Procedure Act. Case was dismissed as moot because the state had already eliminated the Sherman pack, after the state agreed to give one court day advance notice of any future plans to kill wolves to enable the public to seek a temporary restraining order to stop future actions.
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