...attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, an Arizona-based group that challenged the polar bear listing. Reed Hopper, an attorney for the California-based Pacific Legal Foundation, which opposes protections for the bears, called...

...highest numbers in recorded history and the ESA does not allow the listing of a thriving species, said principal attorney Reed Hopper. The proposal relies on speculative computer models of sea ice flow, he said. "That does not constitute reliance...

...It allows activists to file lawsuits more easily based on claims that industrial activity will harm the species," Reed Hopper, lead attorney in the case, said from the group's office in Sacramento, Calif. "Clearly, efforts need to be...

...a long time to come. "We will challenge the first one that's listed on the basis of global warming," said M. Reed Hopper, principal attorney for the Pacific Legal Foundation. "Any movement to list any (animal) wouldn't affect us in...