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ANIMAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE v. MOSBACHER

Civ. A. Nos. 89-1696, 92-0223.

799 F.Supp. 173 (1992)

ANIMAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE OF AMERICA, et al., Petitioners, v. Robert A. MOSBACHER, et al., Respondents, and John G. Shedd Aquarium, and American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, Intervenor-Respondents. INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE COALITION, et al., Petitioners, v. Barbara H. FRANKLIN, and William W. Fox, Jr., Respondents, and John G. Shedd Aquarium, Intervenor-Respondent.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

July 31, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Irving Fox, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs International Wildlife Coalition, Animal Protection Institute of America, Greenpeace U.S.A., American Humane Ass'n, Humane Soc. of U.S., Fund for Animals, Inc., Sea Shepherd Conservation Soc., Whale and Dolphin Conservation Soc., Midwest U.S.A. Whale Protection Federation and Cetacean Soc. Intern.

Christiana P. Perry, Diane M. Connolly, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., for defendants William W. Fox, Jr., Barbara Franklin, Robert A. Mosbacher, James W. Brennan.

John Andrews Hodges, Wiley, Rein & Fielding, Washington, D.C., for intervenor-defendant John G. Shedd Aquarium.

Ira T. Kasdan, James Lowell Komie, Ginsburg, Feldman & Bress, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae American Ass'n of Zoological Parks and Aquariums.

Karen Leta Stefflre, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, New York City, for amicus curiae New York Zoological Soc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JACKSON, District Judge.

These cases, each challenging a permit issued by the Secretary of Commerce ("Secretary") for the importation of certain marine mammals, are before the Court on cross-motions for summary judgment. In the first case, Animal Protection Institute, et al., v. Franklin, Civil Action No. 89-1696, (the "API Case"), the petitioners, each of whom may be generically described as an organization for the protection...

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