· 1/9/1976
The Fund for Animals, a Corporation of the State of New York v. Kent Frizzell, Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior
Citations
- 530 F.2d 982
- 174 U.S. App. D.C. 130
How courts have described this case
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- holding that a delay of forty-four days before seeking injunctive relief was “inexcusable” and “bolstered” the “conclusion that an injunction should not issue,” particularly where the party seeking the injunction had knowledge of the pending nature of the alleged irreparable harm
- finding that a delay of 44 days before bringing action for injunctive relief was “inexcusable” where plaintiff “knew” the claimed irreparable harm was impending
- “[D]uring the eighteen-month period that Plaintiff Grundmann served as part of a two-member Authority, approximately one-third of the Authority’s cases deadlocked, leading to duplicative disputes and resource waste.” (cleaned up)
- finding a 44-day delay in bringing a motion for injunctive relief to be “inexcusable”
- “Our conclusion that an injunction should not issue is bolstered by the delay of the appellants in seeking one.”
- “To equate the death of a small percentage of a reasonably abundant game species with irreparable injury without any attempt to show that the well-being of that species may be jeopardized is to ignore the plain meaning of the word.”
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Judges: Wright, Tamm, Mac-Kinnon
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