Earth Island Institute v. Daley

Memorandum & Order

AQUILINO, District Judge.

This case follows in the wake of legislation begun more than ten years ago in the Congress of the United States, followed by litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, continued in its Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then this Court of International Trade, followed by an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by the government and also by other nations’ appeals to the World Trade Organization against the government. The complaint raises an issue first raised by the plaintiffs in case…