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Oct. 18, 2008
Judges Shouldn't Be Able to Trump the Navy on Security Decisions
Environmentalists' efforts to trump the considered judgment of the Navy’s anti-submarine warfare experts in order to protect whales borders on lunacy, writes Gideon Kanner. - Forum Column
FORUM COLUMN
By Gideon Kanner The U.S. Supreme Court has just heard oral arguments in Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, in which environmentalists seek to impose limits on the U.S. Navy's use of sonar in anti-submarine warfare training, because they claim that sonar harms whales. I expect that much will be said about this case, and much has already been said, so I won't trouble you with rehearsing all the pro and con argu...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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