Pacific Legal Foundation
Amicus Curiae
Steven Geoffrey Gieseler, Counsel of Record The PacificLegal Foundation is a nonprofit legal support organization advocating limited government, individual rights, and freeenterprise. StevenGeoffrey Gieseler is a lawyer with the PacificLegal Foundation, where he specializes in First Amendment rights, propertyrights, and environmental law. He received his law degree from the Universityof Virginia in 2004. The following is excerpted from theAmicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioners as submitted tothe U.S. Supreme Court on August 13, 2008. Toooften, Federal courts subordinate equitable rules and statutory mandates toprovisions of the Endangered Species Act. Much of this deference owes tocourts’ misapplication of this Court’s…
