Judge Rejects Challenge to Indian Whale Hunts
From Times Wire Reports
A federal judge has dismissed a challenge by animal welfare groups to the Makah Indian whale hunts, clearing the way for the gray whale hunts to resume.
U.S. District Judge Franklin Burgess said in Tacoma that the whale hunt opponents failed to prove that federal agencies’ assessment of the hunts’ effect was arbitrary or capricious.
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