to cross the Missouri River pending completion of the environmental review and ordered the pipeline to be emptied within 30 days. On August 5, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the ruling regarding the easement; however, the judges vacated the order to empty the pipeline and asked the Army Corps of Engineers to submit a follow-up brief on whether they would allow continued pipeline operation without the easement. North Atlantic Right Whale On April 9, 2020, Boasberg issued an opinion finding that the National Marine Fisheries Service violated the Endangered Species Act when it issued a Biological Opinion in 2014 allowing for the accidental killings of North Atlantic right whales (of which only about 400 remain as of April 8, 2020) by the American lobster fishery, which consists of seven areas spanning the East Coast from Maine to North Carolina. Personal life Boasberg married Elizabeth Leslie Manson in 1991. His brother, Tom Boasberg, succeeded Michael Bennet as Superintendent of Denver Public Schools after Colorado Governor Bill Ritter appointed Bennet to the United States Senate in January 2009. He is an aficionado of William Shakespeare's plays. In February 2018, he played a crown prosecutor in The Trial of Hamlet that was presented at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. See also Medicaid expansion Efforts to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act References External links Biography of Judge Boasberg at the Superior Court |- |- 1963 births 21st-century American judges Alumni of St Peter's College, Oxford Assistant United States Attorneys Judges of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Living people United States district court judges appointed by Barack Obama Yale Law School alumni