NEW ENGLAND ANTI-VIVISECTION v. UNITED STATES FISH

Civil Action No. 16-cv-149 (KBJ).

208 F.Supp.3d 142 (2016)

NEW ENGLAND ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY, et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, et al., Defendants, and Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Intervenor-Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

Signed September 14, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric Robert Glitzenstein, Meyer Glitzenstein & Eubanks LLP, Katherine A. Meyer, Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal, Washington, DC, William Stewart Eubanks, II, Meyer Glitzenstein & Eubanks LLP, Fort Collins, CO, for Plaintiffs.

Claire M. Whitaker Fred Elmore Haynes U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia Ruth Ann Storey, Trent S.W. Crable, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendants.

James Hardwick Lister, Birch Horton Bittner and Cherot, P.C., Washington, DC, Mara Michaletz, Birch Horton Bittner & Cherot, PC, Anchorage, AK, for Intervenor-Defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

The question of who can speak for the animals has long vexed federal judges in animal-welfare cases. As a general matter, courts have concluded that well-established principles of Article III standing permit "human beings [to] invoke their own...

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