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EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE v. CHRISTOPHER

No. 92-16544.

6 F.3d 648 (1993)

EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE, a California nonprofit corporation; Todd Steiner, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Warren CHRISTOPHER, Secretary of State, et al., Defendants-Appellees, and National Fisheries Institute, Inc., Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided October 1, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah A. Sivas, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Albert M. Ferlo, Jr., Land and Natural Resources Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for defendants-appellees.

Eldon V.C. Greenberg, Garvey, Schubert & Barer, Washington, DC, for intervenor-appellee National Fisheries.

Before: SCHROEDER and BRUNETTI, Circuit Judges, and KING, District Judge.

SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

Earth Island Institute appeals the district court's dismissal for lack of jurisdiction of its lawsuit to enforce the provisions of section 609 of Public Law 101-162, 103 Stat. 1037, which is codified in 16 U.S.C. § 1537 (Supp. 1993). The purpose of the statute is to promote the international protection of sea turtles.

Sea turtles are often trapped in the nets used in commercial shrimp trawl fishing and are then vulnerable to...

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