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EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE v. MOSBACHER

No. C-88-1380-TEH.

746 F.Supp. 964 (1990)

EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE, a California nonprofit corporation; the Marine Mammal Fund, a California corporation, and David R. Brower, Plaintiffs, v. Robert MOSBACHER, Secretary of Commerce; Dr. John Knauss, Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Dr. William W. Fox, Jr., Assistant Administrator, National Marine Fisheries Service; and Nicholas Brady, Secretary of the Treasury, Defendants. American Tunaboat Association; Joseph J. Medina, Jr., and Manuel A. Silva, Intervenors-Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

August 28, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wondie Russell, Wayne S. Braveman, Joshua R. Floum, Cynthia L. Koehler, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Richard B. Stewart, Asst. Atty. Gen., James C. Kilbourne, Charles R. Shockey, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., for defendants.

C. Hugh Friedman, Lorenz, Alhadeff, Lundin & Oggel, San Diego, Cal., David G. Burney, John A. Hodges, Wiley, Rein & Fielding, Washington, D.C., August J. Felando, San Diego, Cal., for intervenor-defendant American Tunaboat Ass'n.

ORDER FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

THELTON E. HENDERSON, District Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injunction. Plaintiffs seek to enforce various provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, 16 U.S.C. §§ 1361 et seq., particularly those relating to the protection of dolphins. Specifically, plaintiffs ask the Court to enforce provisions of the statute which...

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