Legal Opinion

Center for Biological Diversity v. National Marine Fisheries Service

District Court, District of Columbia

Decided September 14, 2022No. Civil Action No. 2021-0930Published

1Opinion of the Court

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, et al., Civil Action No. 21-930 (BAH) Plaintiffs, Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell v. NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION In the 1980s, the National Marine Fisheries Service (“NMFS”), which is tasked under the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”),

16 U.S.C. § 1531

et seq., with protecting endangered and threatened species of sea turtles in U.S. waters, developed a tool to combat the incidental capture by vessels trawling for shrimp of sea turtles, which must swim to the water’s…

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