Thursday, February 28, 2013
Federal appeals court rules anti-whaling group modern-day 'pirates'
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Monday that the US-based anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) [advocacy website] are modern-day pirates, clearing the path for Japanese whalers to pursue legal action against them. The decision overturns a lower court ruling which found against whalers Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) [advocacy website], who claim that SSCS and its founder Paul Watson are preventing them from engaging in what they say is...
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