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CARPENTER v. ANDRUS

Civ. A. No. 79-126.

485 F.Supp. 320 (1980)

Keith CARPENTER, Plaintiff, v. Cecil D. ANDRUS, Secretary of the United States Department of Interior; the Director, United States Fish and Wildlife Service; and the United States of America, Defendants, v. ONE LEOPARD SKIN AND SKULL (PANTHERA PARDUS) seized at John J. Kennedy International Airport, Queens County, New York, from Lufthansa-German Airlines on September 26, 1977, Third-Party Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

January 29, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Uffelman, Jr., Biggs & Battaglia, Wilmington, Del., for plaintiff.

James W. Garvin, Jr., U. S. Atty., Peggy L. Ableman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Wilmington, Del., for defendants.

OPINION

MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ, District Judge.

In this action, a case of first impression, the plaintiff, Keith Carpenter, seeks to enjoin forfeiture of a leopard skin and skull and to compel the defendants, Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the United States of America, to return the leopard skin and skull to their point of origin in West Germany. The defendants counterclaim, joining the...

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