PETA v. MIAMI SEAQUARIUM

No. 16-14814.

879 F.3d 1142 (2018)

PEOPLE FOR the ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS, INC., Animal Legal Defense Fund, Howard Garrett, Orca Network, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MIAMI SEAQUARIUM, Festival Fun Parks, LLC, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 12, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Joseph Schwiep , Scott A. Hiaasen , Coffey Burlington, PL, Miami, FL, Jared Goodman, Esq. , Caitlin Kazuye Hawks , Matthew Daniel Strugar , PETA Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, Matthew Liebman , Stefanie Wilson , Animal Legal Defense Fund, Cotati, CA, Delcianna Winders, Esq. , Harvard Law School, Animal Law & Policy Program, Cambridge, MA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Elliot H. Scherker , Mark A. Salky , Brigid F. Cech Samole , Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Miami, FL, Jennifer Brown Moore , Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Evelyn Anne Cobos , Law Office of Evelyn Cobos, MIAMI, FL, William Earnhart , Birch Horton Bittner & Cherot, PC, Anchorage, AK, James H. Lister , Melinda L. Meade Meyers , Birch Horton Bittner Cherot, PC, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.

Catherine M. Masters , Schiff Hardin, LLP, Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES, THE FUND FOR ANIMALS.

Nicholas Fromherz , Sea Shepherd Legal, Seattle, WA, for Amicus Curiae SEA SHEPARD LEGAL.

Before BLACK and HULL, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.


This case concerns Lolita, an Orcinus orca living in captivity at Miami Seaquarium. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc., Animal Legal Defense Fund, Orca Network, and Howard Garrett (collectively, PETA) sued Miami Seaquarium and Festival Fun Parks, LLC (collectively, Seaquarium), alleging Seaquarium is perpetrating an unlawful...

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