Listen to the arguments made to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Prutehi Litekyan : Save Ritidian v. U.S. Department of the Air Force

This is an audio recording of the hearing held October 6, 2023 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, a public record posted to the website of the court as an MP3 file for public download. The recording is made more accessible to the public thanks to technological innovations of podcasting such as providing no cost closed captioning text accompanying the audio recordings, for people who are hearing impaired. Also podcasting makes audio recordings of court hearings accessible to many other people including people who can better focus on what they are listening to when they are reading along and people who are visually impaired.

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on October 7, 2026 in the further appeal in this case, which concerns permitting of munition explosions in Guam under NEPA.