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HUMANE SOC. OF U.S. v. CLINTON

Slip op. 99-23. Court No. 98-03-00557.

44 F.Supp.2d 260 (1999)

THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES, Humane Society International, Defenders of Wildlife, Plaintiffs, v. William J. CLINTON, President, William M. Daley, Secretary of Commerce, Madeleine K. Albright, Secretary of State Defendants.

United States Court of International Trade.

March 5, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund (Yuki Ishizuka, Patti Goldman) for Plaintiffs.

David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Lois J. Schiffer, Assistant Attorney General, David M. Cohen, Director, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice (Lucius B. Lau), Eileen Sobeck, Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Division Wildlife and Marine Resources Section (Mark A. Brown), Violanda Botet, Attorney-Adviser, Office of the Legal Advisor, United States Department of State, of counsel, Margaret F. Hayes, Assistant General Counsel for Fisheries National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Department of Commerce, of counsel, for Defendants.

OPINION

BARZILAY, District Judge.

I. PROCEDURAL HISTORY

In 1992 Congress passed the High Seas Driftnet Fisheries Enforcement Act, Pub.L. No. 102-582, 106 stat. 4900 (1992) (the "Driftnet Act"). This Act was one in a series of United States and international enactments with the purpose of reducing the detrimental effects on sea life caused by the use of large-scale driftnets in fisheries around the world.1

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