Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd has agreed to pay damages to Japanese whalers for violating a U.S. court injunction and continuing to interfere with their research whaling in the Antarctic Ocean.
The plaintiffs, including the Japanese Institute of Cetacean Research, filed a lawsuit in 2011 with a U.S. federal district court. They sought to stop the hard-line marine-life conservation group from obstructing Japanese research whaling in the Antarctic Ocean.
In December, the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco said Sea Shepherd violated a provisional injunction banning the group from impeding Japanese whalers. It ordered the group to pay damages. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dismissed Sea Shepherd's appeal. The group agreed to pay 2.55 million dollars to the plaintiffs. But litigation continues at the federal district court over Sea Shepherd's harassment, with the 2011 lawsuit pending.
◆violate 違反する
◆injunction 差し止め命令、禁止命令、仮処分
◆Antarctic Ocean 南極海 [the]
◆plaintiff 原告、提訴人
◆lawsuit 訴訟、告訴
◆hard-line 強硬路線
◆conservation 保護、維持
◆provisional 仮の
◆impede 妨げる、邪魔をする
◆dismiss 退ける、はねつける
◆appeal 訴訟、告訴
◆litigation 訴訟、告訴
