Institute of Cetacean Research v. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
ELR Citation: 43 ELR 20114 No(s). 12-35266 (9th Cir. May 24, 2013)
The Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court decision dismissing a Japanese whaling research organization's piracy claims against an environmental activist group. The researchers hunt whales in the Southern Ocean pursuant to a permit issued under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whalin...