Legal Opinion
Strahan v. Coxe
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 10, 1997No. 96-2063PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Chief Judge.
In April 1995, Richard Strahan (“Strahan”) filed suit against Trudy Coxe, Secretary of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, John Phillips, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Environmental Law Enforcement, and Philip Coates, Director of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (together “defendants”), claiming that these Massachusetts state officers were violating the federal Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq., and the Marine Mammals Protection Act (“MMPA”), 16 U.S.C. § 1361 et seq.…
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