Fund for Animals v. Frizzell

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JOHN LEWIS SMITH, Jr., District Judge.

Plaintiffs have brought this action contesting recently promulgated regulations which permit the hunting of certain migratory waterfowl, specifically the greater snow goose, the Atlantic brant, the merganser, and the goldeneye duck. 1 They allege violations by the federal defendants of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the Administrative Procedure Act, the Migra tory Bird Treaty Act, the 1972 Convention for the Protection of Migratory Birds between the United States and Japan, the 1916 Migratory Bird Treaty between the…