American Cetacean Society v. Baldridge

MEMORANDUM OPINION

CHARLES R. RICHEY, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

Before the Court are the defendants’ and defendant-intervenors’ applications for a stay pending appeal of the Court’s March 5, 1985 Opinion and Order, 604 F.Supp. 1398, in this case. That decision was based on the Court’s determination of the clear intent and design of Congress in passing the Packwood-Magnuson Amendment to the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976, 16 U.S.C. §§ 1821(e)(2)(A)(i) and (B), to create an automatic process whereby any foreign nation whaling in excess of established. International…