Modernized Endangered Species Act regulations will be reinstated after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a district court improperly vacated 2019 revisions.
The appeals court found that the district court erred by reversing the regulations without determining whether they were actually unlawful.
American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall says they appreciate the ruling by the Court of Appeals.
“The revisions to the Endangered Species Act protected at-risk animals while ensuring that farmers could continue feeding America’s families,” he says.
“This ruling doesn’t end the debate about modernizing the ESA, but it sends an important message to the lower courts that their job is to rule based on law.”
This is the second appellate court ruling to favor the Farm Bureau in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the past month.
In August, the Court overturned a lower court’s ruling that prohibited AFBF from defending the delisting of the gray wolf.
