Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Veneman

469 F.3d 826 ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND; Animal Welfare Institute; Valerie Buchanan; Jane Garrison; Nancy Megna, Plaintiffs-Appellants, National Association for Biomedical Research, Intervenor-Appellee, v. Ann M. VENEMAN; Bobby R. Acord; Chester A. Gipson, Defendants-Appellees. No. 04-15788. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted December 9, 2005. Filed November 22, 2006. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Katherine A. Meyer, Howard M. Crystal, Meyer, Glitzenstein & Crystal, Washington, D.C.; Bruce A. Wagman, Morgenstein & Jubelirer, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Robert A. Long, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for the intervenor-appellee. John S. Koppel, Michael Jay Singer, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; Phyllis J. Hamilton, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-03-03400-PJH. Before KOZINSKI and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, and H. RUSSEL HOLLAND, * District Judge. WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge. 1 Plaintiffs, who include the Animal Legal Defense Fund ("ALDF"), the Animal Welfare…