United States Ninth Circuit

Under the International Dolphin Conservation Program Act, ambiguity over whether or not purse seine net fishing has had an adverse impact on dolphin populations prevents the Secretary of Commerce from labelling tuna caught by that method as "dolphin safe".

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/11/2000
• Decided 07/23/2001
• Published 07/23/2001

Judges

• SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  BRIGHT,Silverman, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Patricia M. Bryne and William A. Butker, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC, for the amici curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Katherine W. Hazard,United States Department of Justice, Environmental and Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellants., Joshua R. Floum, Legal Strategies Group, Emeryville, California, for the plaintiffs-appellees.