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Court rules against Coast Guard in shark-fin seizure PDF Print E-mail

By Greg Moran
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER, San Diego
March 17, 2008

SAN DIEGO – A Hong Kong shipping company should not have been forced to give up the proceeds from 32 tons of shark fins seized by the U.S. Coast Guard on the open seas in 2002, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

The decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco undercuts what was billed at the time as the biggest case against the practice of shark finning, which is banned under U.S. law.

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