The Rattlesnake Coalition v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

THE RATTLESNAKE COALITION, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v. U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION No. 05-36097 AGENCY, an agency of the United States; MICHAEL O. LEAVITT,  D.C. No.

CV-04-00087-DWM

Administrator of the U.S. EPA;

OPINION

CITY OF MISSOULA, a municipality organized under the laws of Montana, Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Montana Donald W. Molloy, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted September 25, 2007—Seattle, Washington

Filed December 7, 2007

Before: Betty B. Fletcher, Andrew J. Kleinfeld, and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Gould

16087 RATTLESNAKE COALITION v. U.S. EPA 16091

COUNSEL

Craig Murdock, San Francisco, California; Carolyn K. Vinci, Missoula, Montana, for plaintiff-appellant The Rattlesnake Coalition.

Marilyn Kuray, Office of General Counsel, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.; Sue Ellen Wooldridge, Assistant United States Attorney General, Washington, D.C.; David C. Shilton, Lauren Fischer, Jennifer L. Scheller, Attor- neys, United…