Anti-Whaling Group Found in Contempt of Court

Radical environmentalists who threw acid and smoke bombs at Japanese whalers have been found in contempt of court for continuing their campaign to disrupt Japan's annual whale hunt in the waters off Antarctica. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals based in the western city of San Francisco has ordered a commissioner to determine how much the U.S.-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Canadian founder Paul Watson owe for defying a court order to stop their dangerous anti-whaling...

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