Japan whalers given Sea Shepherd injunction by US court

[xchrom]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20778616

A US court has ordered conservation group Sea Shepherd to stay at least 500 yards away from Japan's whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean.

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit banned the group from "physically attacking any vessel engaged by the plaintiffs".

The court was responding to an appeal by Japan's whalers, after an earlier case was rejected.

The injunction remains in force until the court formally rules on the appeal.

[madrchsod]

1. good luck with that usa....

ya don`t have any standing in this case.

[leveymg]

2. When did that ever stop us from applying power globally?

That's all this is about. Japan has influence, we have the power to enforce it.

[caraher]

3. Who's going to be there to enforce it?

Yeah, we *could* send the Navy, I suppose. But I don't see any real incentive to do so.


I think all this really does is give anyone who wants to harass the Sea Shepherd folks in US courts one more thing to attack them with.

[leveymg]

4. There's soft power and hard power. Both are at play in this case.

If there's a property interest to protect, we will use power to protect it. Anywhere.

[PamW]

9. Fault.

We don't need to send the US Navy to support this.

There have been incidents in the past where there have been collisions between Sea Shepherd craft and Japanese whaling vessels. One of these collisions led to the sinking of Sea Shepherd's "Adi Gil". Another incident led to severe damage to Sea Shepherd's "Bridget Bardot".

With this ruling in place, it means that any further incidents / collisions between Sea Shepherd craft and Japanese whaling vessels will now automatically be ruled as the Sea Shepherds being at fault. If there is a collision, the fault will lie with Sea Shepherds because it means they violated a Court Order.

PamW

[Nihil]

10. Only if anyone gives a shit about some judge in the US.

Your argument would support the Japanese deliberately ramming a Sea Shepherd vessel
and then claim that it was Sea Shepherd's "fault" for not sucessfully avoiding the attach.

Screw that.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

6. In the lead in to every law suit there is a section that talks about why the plaintiff believes that

court has jurisdiction. It would be informative to see what it says

The jurisdiction issue seems really strained.

[FBaggins]

7. Found some of the earlier arguments

http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/view_subpage.php?pk_id=0000009597

[ProgressiveProfessor]

5. Parallel thread in GD

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022027574

[Nihil]

8. Japanese tail now wagging the US dog?

The Japanese are nothing if not inventive in how they spend their bribe money.