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UNITED STATES v. SPECIES OF WILDLIFE, ETC.

No. 75 C 41.

404 F.Supp. 1298 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. SPECIES OF WILDLIFE CONSISTING OF A FULLY MOUNTED LEOPARD (PANTHERA PARDUS), Defendant, David B. Flavan, Intervenor.

United States District Court, E. D. New York.

December 3, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David G. Trager, U. S. Atty., E. D. N. Y., for plaintiff George H. Weller, Asst. U. S. Atty., of counsel.

Vatterott, Shaffar, Dolan & Pepka, St. Ann, Mo., for claimant Charles H. Shaffar, St. Ann, Mo., of counsel.

BRUCHHAUSEN, District Judge.

This is an action for the forfeiture of a fully mounted leopard, an endangered species illegally imported from the Republic of Kenya, Africa, into the United States. The applicable law is Section 4(a)(2) of the Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969, P.L. 91-135.

The Secretary of the Interior, on March 30, 1972, added the leopard (Panthera pardus) to the list of Endangered Foreign...

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