Kossar v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the agency’s “take calculations are clearly erroneous because they inexplicably mix corrected population abundance figures with uncorrected survey density estimates, thereby failing to adequately calculate that which the agency was actually trying to calculate”
• upholding NMFS's determination that a take of 10% of the beluga whale population affected a \small number\ of beluga whales
• “Plaintiffs claim that the 160 decibel threshold is scientifically outdated and contrary to the opinion of five leading bioacousticians”
• examining effect of seismic surveys on marine mammals

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).