Chemical Producers and Distributors Ass'n v. Helliker

463 F.3d 871 CHEMICAL PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Paul E. HELLIKER, Director of the California Department of Pesticide Regulation, Defendant-Appellee, and Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.; Dow Agrosciences LLC; BASF Corporation; Bayer Cropscience LP; Du Pont De Nemours and Company; Monsanto Company, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees. No. 04-56318. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted May 4, 2006. Filed August 31, 2006. 1 COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED David H. Bamberger, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary U.S. LLP, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiff-appellant. 2 Stanley W. Landfair and Lawrence S. Ebner, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-intervenors-appellees. 3 Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California; A. Howard Matz, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-02-09781-AHM. 4 Before HAWKINS and PAEZ, Circuit Judges, and NEIL V. WAKE, * District Judge. 5 WAKE, District Judge. 6 We must decide whether intervening amendments to California's pesticide registration laws, which were challenged and upheld below, render this appeal moot. We hold they do. Because…