Winter

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

M. GUTIERREZ, Secretary of the

Department of Commerce; ORDER DENYING

NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES EMERGENCY

SERVICES; WILLIAM HOGARTH, MOTION FOR

Assistant Administrator for STAY Fisheries of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration; CONRAD C. LAUTENBACHER, JR., Administrator of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Defendants-Appellants.  Filed February 19, 2008

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

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