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Fri Feb 17, 2012, 11:23 AM Feb 2012

Court injunction against anti-whaling group denied

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120217_24.html

updated at 14:36 UTC, Feb. 17

A US federal district court has declined a request by Japanese whalers for a preliminary injunction to immediately stop obstruction of their activity by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

In December, the Tokyo-based Institute of Cetacean Research filed suit in the US state of Washington to stop the anti-whaling group from carrying out such obstruction in the Antarctic.

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Court injunction against anti-whaling group denied (Original Post) NNN0LHI Feb 2012 OP
Somehow I doubt that federal courts have jurisdiction in international waters NT rbixby Feb 2012 #1
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