National Association Of Home Builders v. Gale A. Norton

340 F.3d 835 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HOME BUILDERS; Southern Arizona Home Builders Association; Home Builders Association of Central Arizona, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Defenders of Wildlife; Southwest Center for Biodiversity; Friends of the Owls; Peter Galvin, Intervenors-Appellees, v. Gale A. NORTON; Jamie Rappaport Clark; Fish and Wildlife Service, Defendants-Appellees. No. 02-15212. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted March 10, 2003 — San Francisco, California. Filed August 19, 2003. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Norman D. James, Fennemore Craig, Phoenix, Arizona, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Jeffrey R. Keohane, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees. Michael P. Senatore, Defenders of Wildlife, Washington, D.C., for the intervenors-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona; Susan R. Bolton, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV 00-0903 SRB. Before: John T. Noonan, A. Wallace Tashima, and Kim McLane Wardlaw, Circuit Judges. OPINION TASHIMA, Circuit Judge. 1 The National Association of Home…