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| NRDC, The HSUS, et al. v. Gutierrez (Navy sonar) |
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United States District Court for the Northern District of California |
| Plaintiff(s): |
Natural Resources Defense Council, The HSUS, Cetacean Society International, League for Coastal Protection, Ocean Futures Society, Jean-Michel Cousteau |
| Defendant: |
Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of the Department of Commerce, and Donald Winter, Secretary of the Navy, et al. |
| HSUS Counsel: |
Sarah Uhlemann |
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Morrison & Foerster, Natural Resources Defense Council |
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Completed |
After successfully challenging NMFS’s decision to permit the Navy’s Low Frequency Active Sonar (“LFA”) system because LFA harms sound-sensitive marine mammals like endangered whales, a coalition of conservation and animal welfare organizations expanded the existing lawsuit to challenge the agency’s reauthorization of nearly the same sonar program. Parties reached a settlement limiting the Navy’s sonar use to areas with low populations of marine mammals.
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