Supreme Court decides Winter v. NRDC
November 16, 2008
My daughter has to write a monthly current events story for her 5th grade class, & she gave a presentation in October on the oral argument in Winter v. NRDC.
My introduction to this case was at a symposium last year at William and Mary. There, Navy and NRDC lawyers did pitched battle on whether the Navy should be allowed to conduct its training exercises, when the sonar causes injuries to marine mammals.
The Supreme Court decision is really appalling, all about putting the thumb on the injunction equities scale in favor of the Navy’s arguments that it just has to keep these training exercises going or national readiness will suffer. Needless to say, we know one young woman who’s disappointed today.
