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FELD ENTERTAINMENT INC. v. ASPCA

Civ. Action No. 07-1532 (EGS).

873 F.Supp.2d 288 (2012)

FELD ENTERTAINMENT, INC., Plaintiff, v. AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

July 9, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michelle C. Pardo , John M. Simpson , Joseph T. Small, Jr. , Kara L. Petteway , Stephen M. McNabb , Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff.

Daniel Seth Ruzumna , Harry S. Clarke, III , Peter W. Tomlinson , Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, LLP, New York, NY, Stephen L. Braga , Ropes Gray LLP, Laura Nachowitz Steel , Kathleen Hall Warin , Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, LLP, Logan Daniel Smith , Roger E. Zuckerman , Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP, David H. Dickieson , Schertler & Onorato LLP, Stephen L. Braga , Ropes Gray LLP, Barbara Ann Van Gelder , Dickstein Shapiro LLP, William B. Nes , Morgan, Lewis & Bockus LLP, Andrew B. Weissman , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC, Bernard J. Dimuro , Stephen Lybrook Neal, Jr. , Dimuroginsberg, PC, Alexandria, VA, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

EMMET G. SULLIVAN, District Judge.

This case arises out of a prior, long running litigation in this Court over whether Feld Entertainment Inc. ("FEI") violated the Endangered Species Act by its use of Asian elephants in FEI's Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus ("Circus"). That litigation (hereinafter the "ESA Action") was brought by several non-profit organizations and one individual plaintiff, Thomas Rider ("Rider"), who...

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