GREENPEACE, U.S.A. v. MOSBACHER

Civ. No. 88-2158 GHR.

719 F.Supp. 21 (1989)

GREENPEACE, U.S.A., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Robert MOSBACHER, Secretary of Commerce, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

August 17, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann E. Misback, Roberta L. Corne, James R. Jackson, Jr., William D. Rogers, and Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Eileen Sobeck, Donald A. Carr, James C. Kilbourne, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Timothy Keeney, Gene Martin, Dept. of Commerce (NOAA), and Daniel Bodansky, Office of the Legal Advisor, Dept. of State, Washington, D.C., for defendants.


ORDER

REVERCOMB, District Judge.

The defendants have moved to dismiss this case, which involves a challenge to the decision of defendant Secretary of Commerce in 1988 not to "certify" the Republic of Iceland as a nation that hurts the cause of international whaling conservation, pursuant to the "Pelly Amendment," 22 U.S.C. § 1978(a)(1). Such certification would, among other things, enable the President to impose import restrictions on the offending...

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