Mealey's (June 9, 2020, 1:12 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — An attorney for the Trump administration on June 5 told a panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that it should reverse a ruling about leasing offshore areas for oil and gas exploration because in that decision, the district court “misconstrued” a section of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) and wrongly vacated a large portion of an executive order issued by President Donald J. Trump. Attorneys representing conservationists argued that they have standing and contended that their case has merit (League of Conservation Voters, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, et al., Nos. 19-35460, 19-35461 and 19-35462, 9th Cir.)....