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MARCUM v. SALAZAR

Civil Action No. 09-1912 (RCL).

810 F.Supp.2d 56 (2011)

Ralph M. MARCUM, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Ken SALAZAR, Secretary, United States Secretary of the Interior, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

August 30, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Jackson, III , Conservation Force, Metairie, LA, for Plaintiffs.

Ethan Carson Eddy , U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ROYCE C. LAMBERTH, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs paid a princely sum for the opportunity to shoot African elephants in Zambia and then they wanted to import the animals' corpses back to the United States. The trouble is that plaintiffs' attempts at post-mortem importation run up against some complex law. The United States is a signatory to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ("CITES"), a multilateral...

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