Settlement Reached in Legal Action Against Sea Shepherd by Japanese Whalers
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] August 24, 2016
The Japanese Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) and Kyodo Senpaku (KS) today announced that they have reached a settlement in the lawsuits against Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) and Paul Watson for harassing and endangering research whaling vessels.
ICR and KS filed their original complaint in the Washington Federal District Court in Seattle on 8 December 2011, seeking injunctive relief from violent behavior that threatened the safety and lives of their researchers and crews. This followed several years of increasingly dangerous physical attacks on the High Seas in which Sea Shepherd and Paul Watson attempted to sabotage research activity by ramming vessels, dragging ropes to damage propellers and throwing and firing glass projectiles from close quarters.
On 17 December 2012, the U. S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a preliminary injunction
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