"Sharp Park Granted Stay, Postponing Lawsuit"

Appears to be good news for the MacKenzie golf course at Sharp Park after a judge issued a stay until U.S. Fish and Wildlife considers a city biological assessment.

Chris Carr, chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Environment and Energy practice group and co-chair of its Cleantech group, said: “This is good news for supporters of public golf courses in the Bay Area. It’s also good news for responsible supporters of the Endangered Species Act, rightly concerned that the Sharp Park case will head any parade of ESA abuse horribles. Because of the city’s responsible stewardship of Sharp Park, golf fans everywhere, including the many thousands who will be attending the U.S. Open Golf Championship in June here in San Francisco, have reason to be optimistic that extremists will not succeed in shutting down one of golf’s great historic courses.”