Marbled Murrelet v. Babbitt

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• making the obvious observation that “[i]f there is any difference” between the phrases federal action and major federal action, major federal action would be “the more exclusive standard”
• “there is no evidence that the USFWS had any power to enforce those conditions other than its authority under section 9 of the ESA, and this is not enough to trigger ‘federal action’ under section 7”
• “there is no evidence that the USFWS had any power to enforce those conditions other than its authority under section 9 of the ESA, and this is not enough to trigger ‘federal action’ under section 7”
• examining “the letter as a whole” for sufficiency of notice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

25 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Karuk Tribe v. United States Forest Service
  Ninth Circuit· 2012-06-01· cited 152×
• National Wildlife Federation v. National Marine Fisheries Service
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-08-31· cited 115×
• Washington Toxics Coalition v. Environmental Protection Agency
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-06-28· cited 112×
• Conservation Congress v. Nancy Finley
  Ninth Circuit· 2014-12-16· cited 53×
• Cold Mountain v. Garber
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-07-14· cited 52×
• Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Ctr v. Rob MacWhorter
  Ninth Circuit· 2015-08-10· cited 44×
• Strahan v. Coxe
  D. Massachusetts· 1996-09-24· cited 23×
• Alabama-Tombigbee Rivers Coalition v. Norton
  Eleventh Circuit· 2003-07-23· cited 17×
• Marbled Murrelet v. Babbitt
  Ninth Circuit· 1999-07-07· cited 16×
• Loggerhead Turtle v. County Council of Volusia County
  Eleventh Circuit· 1998-08-03· cited 13×
• International Center for Technology Assessment v. Thompson
  District of Columbia· 2006-03-08· cited 13×
• Western Watersheds Project v. Matejko
  Ninth Circuit· 2006-07-24· cited 12×
• Center for Sierra Nevada Conservation v. United States Forest Service
  E.D. California· 2011-05-26· cited 11×
• Ka Makani 'O Kohala Ohana Inc. v. Water Supply
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-07-01· cited 10×
• Karuk Tribe v. United States Forest Service
  Ninth Circuit· 2011-04-07· cited 8×
• Cascadia Wildlands v. Scott Timber Co.
  Ninth Circuit· 2024-06-26· cited 6×
• Hamilton v. City of Austin
  W.D. Texas· 1998-06-16· cited 4×
• Greenpeace Foundation v. Daley
  D. Hawaii· 2000-06-05· cited 4×
• Defenders of Wildlife v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-08-22· cited 4×
• Harrison County, MS v. U.S. Army Corps
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-03-27· cited 3×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-15· cited 1,928×
• Gwaltney of Smithfield, Ltd. v. Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1987-12-01· cited 955×
• Save the Yaak Committee, Donn Vance v. J.R. Block, Secretary of Agriculture R. Max Peterson, Chief, Forest Service Thomas Costin, Region I Forester
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-05-11· cited 223×
• Sierra Club v. Marsh
  Ninth Circuit· 1987-05-08· cited 98×
• Pacific Rivers Council v. Thomas
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-07-07· cited 63×
• Marbled Murrelet v. Babbitt
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-05-07· cited 52×
• Maine Audubon Society v. Purslow
  D. Maine· 1987-10-09· cited 6×
• Unnamed case
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-09-15· cited 2×