HUMANE SOC. OF UNITED STATES v. WATT

Civ. A. No. 82-2689.

550 F.Supp. 47 (1982)

The HUMANE SOCIETY OF the UNITED STATES, et al., Plaintiffs, v. James G. WATT, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

September 29, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brice M. Clagett, Ellen Bass, J. Peter Byrne, Michael A. Roth, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

J. Vance Hughes, Jose A. Toro, Wildlife and Natural Marine Resources Section, Land and Natural Resources Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants.


ORDER

JOYCE HENS GREEN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, the Humane Society of the United States, the Maine Audubon Society, and an individual who is a member of these organizations and who, by avocation, observes birds which are the subject of this action, charge that the regulations of the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) governing hunting of black ducks over the 1982-83 season, promulgated on September 17, 1982 under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), 16...

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