Earth Island Institute v. Christopher

6 F.3d 648 23 Envtl. L. Rep. 21 ,553 EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE, a California nonprofit corporation; Todd Steiner, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Warren CHRISTOPHER, * Secretary of State, et al., Defendants-Appellees, and National Fisheries Institute, Inc., Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee. No. 92-16544. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Jan. 14, 1993. Decided Oct. 1, 1993. Deborah A. Sivas, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiffs-appellants. Albert M. Ferlo, Jr., Land and Natural Resources Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for defendants-appellees. Eldon V.C. Greenberg, Garvey, Schubert & Barer, Washington, DC, for intervenor-appellee National Fisheries. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before: SCHROEDER and BRUNETTI, Circuit Judges, and KING, ** District Judge. SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge: 1 Earth Island Institute appeals the district court's dismissal for lack of jurisdiction of its lawsuit to enforce the provisions of section 609 of Public Law 101-162, 103 Stat. 1037, which is codified in 16 U.S.C. Sec. 1537 (Supp.1993). The purpose of the statute is to…