Publication Date: 2017-08-22
Practice Area: Environmental Law | Civil Procedure
Industry: Defense | Federal Government
Date Filed: 2017-08-21
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Edward M. Chen, District Judge, Presiding Before: Ferdinand F. Fernandez, Mary H. Murguia, and Paul J. Watford, Circuit Judges.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sarah Burt (argued) and J. Martin Wagner, Earthjustice, San Francisco, California, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
for defendant: Mark R. Haag (argued), Peter Kryn Dykema, and Andrew C. Mergen, Attorneys; John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General; Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Jonathan C. McKay, Office of General Counsel, Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C.; Phillip J. Riblett, Office of the Legal Adviser, United States Department of State, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellees.
Case Number: No. 15-15695
Non-profit environmental organization had standing to challenge government's approval of new military base in Okinawa (Murguia, J.)