Court: Permit Violates Owl Protection
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By WILLIAM McCALL  PORTLAND, Ore. - A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act when it approved a 22,000-acre logging project that affects northern spotted owl habitat in southern Oregon.
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PITTSBURGH - A man says a traffic ticket a state trooper gave him is for the birds - or at least for flipping the bird. Stephen Corey, 42, filed a federal lawsuit because he says he had a First Amendment right to flip his middle finger at the trooper in July.
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The city's decision to deny a permit to protesters for a rally on Central Park's Great Lawn on the weekend before the Republican National Convention is about preserving the lawn, not suppressing speech, lawyers for the city said in federal court Friday.
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Alaska's wolf-killing program to boost moose and caribou numbers is facing a new legal challenge.
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By Anne Jungen, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Dec. 14--HOLMEN, Wis. -- Town of Onalaska residents voted Wednesday night against the town purchasing 107 acres on Brice Prairie for a new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regional headquarters and nature preserve.
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A judge has ruled that Robert Culp's lawsuit alleging that the Los Angeles Zoo mistreats elephants can go forward.
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EUGENE, Ore. - Saws buzz and carpenters hammer nails, set up ladders and run an air generator. Al doesn't give a hoot. The brownish Western screech-owl showed up at Laura Fenimore's house as she began adding what will be her new great room.
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Robert Culp's lawsuit alleging that the Los Angeles Zoo mistreats elephants can go forward. Judge Reginald A. Dunn has rejected arguments by the city that the complaint filed by the 77-year-old actor and real estate agent Aaron Leider lacks a legal basis.
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Judge says law violates free speech, orders blocking stopped.
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By Steve Lyttle, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 20--In front of a standing-room-only crowd Monday night, the Chester County Council voted to ban "exotic animals" in the county.
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An animal-rights group has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the U.S. Department of Agriculture of improperly withholding information gathered during its investigation into the near-fatal tiger attack on illusionist Roy Horn.
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THE DECISION: The state Supreme Court banned next week&#39;s planned bear hunt, saying the state does not have a proper plan to manage the animals.
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The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Thursday, June 21:  The Bush administration unfortunately has reopened an old controversy with its plan to reduce protected habitat for the northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that police do not violate the constitutional right to privacy when a dog sniff of a vehicle during a lawful traffic stop turns up contraband.
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Environmentalists asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday to grant protected status to the California spotted owl, claiming the bird's old-growth forest habitat is threatened by logging.
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By Eric Ferreri, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 24--DURHAM -- In a lawsuit, a Durham man is disputing a January decision by county commissioners that blocked a townhouse development off Farrington Road.
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GRANTS PASS -- A petition from environmentalists to put four species of lamprey -- jawless fish resembling eels that swim with salmon -- under protection of the Endangered Species Act has been rejected again by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.