WildEarth Guardians v. David Bernhardt

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United States District Court Central District of California

11 WILDEARTH GUARDIANS, Case №: 2:19-cv-09473-ODW (KSx)

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

v.

COMPEL COMPLETION OF THE

14 DAVID BERNHARDT, et al., ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD [31]

Defendants.

16 I. INTRODUCTION This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiff WildEarth Guardians’s Motion 19 to Compel Completion of the Administrative Record. (Mot. to Compel Completion 20 (“Motion” or “Mot.”), ECF No. 31.) The Motion is fully briefed. (See Opp’n to Mot. 21 (“Opp’n”), ECF No. 34; Reply ISO Mot. (“Reply”), ECF No. 35.) For the reasons 22 that follow, the Court GRANTS WildEarth’s Motion.1 II. BACKGROUND In September 2015, WildEarth petitioned Defendant U.S. Fish and Wildlife 25 Service (the “Service”) under the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), 16 U.S.C. § 1531 26 et seq., to list the Joshua tree as “threatened” due to climate change, frequent

28 1 Having carefully considered the papers filed in connection…