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Article #7857Re: Gnatcatcher: Courts Have Jurisdiction?
From: Mike Vandeman
Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 19:44
Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 19:44
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>> BTW, does anyone know by what law/amendment/etc. a federal judge >> gets jurisdiction to allow the destruction of a wildlife population? >> Since wildlife obviously had no vote in the creation of any human >> laws, this decision (to allow the gnatcatcher population to be >> destroyed) is "problematical".... > >Only if one considers that birds, trees, butterflies, and mangos have >rights, which they do not. Maybe there could be a concept akin to "common law", whereby common sense (science) could apply to the treatment of wildlife. Then they would have common-law rights.
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