Legal Opinion
Okinawa Dugong v. Mattis
District Court, N.D. California
Decided August 1, 2018No. Case No. 03-cv-04350-EMCPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
EDWARD M. CHEN, United States District Judge
This case concerns the planned Futenma Replacement Facility (FRF), a U.S. military facility in Okinawa, and its potential impacts on the Okinawa dugong, an endangered sea mammal important in Japanese culture. Negotiations between the United States and Japanese governments regarding the FRF have a long and fraught history. As explained in more detail below, they ultimately resulted in an agreement to relocate the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from Ginawan City to an area adjacent to Camp Schwab and the Oura and Henoko Bays.
In 2003, Plaintiffs…
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