Defenders of Wildlife v. Dalton, (2000)

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Defenders of Wildlife v. Dalton, (2000)

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UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Before: Judge Judith M. Barzilay ----------------------------------------------------- x DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE, et al., :

Plaintiffs, : Court No. 00-02-00060 v. :

PENELOPE D. DALTON, et al, :

Defendants. : ----------------------------------------------------- x [Plaintiffs' Motion to Complete the Administrative Record granted in part and denied in part.]

Decided: October 12, 2000

Defenders of Wildlife (William J. Snape, III) for Plaintiffs.

David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice; David M. Cohen, Director, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division (Lucius B. Lau) for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

I. INTRODUCTION

Before the court is Plaintiffs' Motion to Complete the Administrative Record ("Pls.' Mot."). Defenders of Wildlife, et al. ("Defenders" or "Plaintiffs"), ask the court to order Penelope D. Dalton, et al.1 ("Defendants"), to provide as part of the administrative record, three types of documents: (1)

1 By delegation, the Secretary of Commerce has given Penelope D. Dalton, in her official capacity as the Assistant Administrator for Fisheries for the National Marine Fisheries Service, an organization of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States Department of Commerce, the authority to render these findings. Throughout the op...

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