Earth Island Institute v. Brown

17 F.3d 1241 16 ITRD 1321 EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE, a California nonprofit corporation; Marine Mammal Fund, a California corporation; David R. Brower, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Ronald H. BROWN, * Secretary of Commerce, et al., Defendants-Appellants, and American Tunaboat Association; Joseph J. Medina, Jr. and Manuel A. Silva, Defendants-Intervenors. Nos. 92-15126, 92-15387. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Aug. 10, 1993. Decided March 3, 1994. Martin W. Matzen, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellants. Joshua R. Floum and Deborah A. Sivas, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiffs-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Northern California. Before SNEED, POOLE, and TROTT, Circuit Judges. POOLE, Circuit Judge: 1 Appellants Secretary of Commerce, Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, Assistant Administrator of the National Marine Fisheries Service, and Secretary of the Treasury appeal the district court's grant of a preliminary injunction in favor of plaintiffs Earth Island Institute, the Marine Mammal…