Natural Res. Def. Council, Inc. v. United States

Katzmann, Judge:

*1383 On July 26, 2018, presented with the desperate plight of the vaquita -- the world's smallest porpoise, now on the verge of extinction as they are caught and strangled in the gillnets of fisheries in the Northern Gulf of California in Mexican waters -- this Court granted "plaintiffs' [Natural Resources Defense Council, Center for Biological Diversity, and Animal Welfare Institute] motion for a preliminary injunction requiring the Government, pending final adjudication of the merits, to ban the importation of all fish and fish products from Mexican commercial fisheries that use…