Nrdc

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE 

COUNCIL, INC.; THE INTERNATIONAL

FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE;

CETACEAN SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL;

LEAGUE FOR COASTAL PROTECTION;

OCEAN FUTURES SOCIETY; JEAN-

MICHEL COUSTEAU,

Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. No. 08-55054 DONALD C. WINTER, Secretary of D.C. No. the Navy; UNITED STATES CV-07-00335-FMC DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY; CARLOS  Central District

M. GUTIERREZ, Secretary of the of California,

Department of Commerce; Santa Ana

NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES

ORDER

SERVICES; WILLIAM HOGARTH,

Assistant Administrator for Fisheries of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration; CONRAD C. LAUTENBACHER, JR., Administrator of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Defendants-Appellants.  Filed January 16, 2008

Before: Betty B. Fletcher, Dorothy W. Nelson and Stephen Reinhardt, Circuit Judges.

1235 1236 NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL v. WINTER

ORDER

The Navy has filed an emergency motion in this court to vacate the preliminary…