Legal Opinion
Animal Welfare Institute v. Martin
District Court, D. Maine
Decided December 16, 2008No. CV-08-267-B-WPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER DENYING EMERGENCY MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
JOHN A. WOODCOCK, JR., District Judge.
Following the recent revelation of the death of a second Canada lynx, a threatened species, in the span of two weeks from a Conibear trap, the Plaintiffs filed an emergency motion for temporary restraining order (Docket # 63). Finding that the recent taking likely occurred despite, not because of Maine’s newly amended regulatory scheme, the Court denies the Plaintiffs’ motion, since the Plaintiffs failed to demonstrate a causal nexus between the exercise of state authority and Endangered…
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