Commercial whaling ban upheld
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Japan's proposal to resume commercial hunting of minke whales is rejected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
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Japan is confident it can secure the  votes needed to resume commercial trade in whale products and  that this would be a step toward lifting a ban on hunting the  marine giants, a Japanese official said Wednesday.
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The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday  upheld a lower court decision to throw out a &#36;145 billion  punitive damage award against the major tobacco companies, a  big victory for the cigarette industry.
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - The International Humane Society is taking a Japanese whaling company to court in Sydney on Tuesday, accusing it of killing whales in an Australian whale sanctuary.
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Activists withdrew a threat to ram a  Japanese whaling fleet in the frigid Southern Ocean on Tuesday,  while in Tokyo pro-whaling nations met to push for a return to  commercial fishing of the giant creatures.
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The US Supreme Court backs an earlier court ruling that cigarette firms cannot be sued over low tar cigarettes.
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Oct. 15, 2004 - Conservationists claimed victory at a global wildlife trade meeting on Thursday despite warnings that a cash crisis could hamper new hard-won measures to protect endangered species.
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A federal judge has upheld the government's practice of allowing development to proceed even if it is discovered after a project begins that the work could endanger protected species.
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A Danish court upholds a supermarket's decision to dismiss a Muslim woman for wearing her headscarf to work.
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A judge upholds New York's ban on metal bats in high school baseball games, saying it was not his place to overturn a law that was approved by a government with public safety in mind.
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Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru and six other whaling ships face opposition from The Sea Shepherd's vessel Farley Mowat and Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise. Environmentalists claim this whaling is illegal and destructive, while Japan claims it is scientific research.
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The Bush administration upheld the imposition of penalty tariffs on shrimp imports from China and Vietnam yesterday, handing a victory to beleaguered US shrimp producers.
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A Portuguese court has backed the government's decision to ban the Dutch abortion boat sponsored by the group Women on Waves from entry the country's sovereign waters.
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Japan lost a bid on Wednesday to require the world body that regulates global wildlife trade to review the status of whales, a step that could have led to the resumption of commercial whaling.
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A federal appeals court decided Wednesday that marine mammals have no standing to sue to stop the U.S. Navy from using sonar.
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Whaling was banned two decades ago, but a vote this week marked a big step toward bringing it back
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A UN forum on Thursday approved a landmark nine-year ban on international ivory trade to stem a surge in poaching that has killed up to 20,000 elephants per year.