The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has denied the Bush
Administration's and Makah Indian Tribe's request to reconsider last
year's ruling that effectively put a stop to the hunting of gray
whales off the coast of Washington. The government and tribe had asked
the court to rehear the case "en banc"–by the full court rather than
a panel of judges. In denying this request, the court rejected
challenges to last year's ruling that the federal government, in
approving the whale hunt, had failed to comply with the National
Environmental Policy Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
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