Greenpeace USA v. Stone

924 F.2d 175 21 Envtl. L. Rep. 20 ,573 GREENPEACE USA, a California non-profit corporation; Stichting Greenpeace Council, sometimes known as Greenpeace International, a not-for-profit stichting incorporated in the Netherlands; Institute for the Advancement of Hawaiian Affairs, a Hawaii non-profit corporation; World Council of Indigenous Peoples--Hawaii, a Hawaii non-profit corporation; and Walter Keli Iokekai Paulo, an individual, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Michael P. STONE, Secretary of the Army; Richard Cheney, Secretary of the Department of Defense, Defendants-Appellees. No. 90-16260. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Jan. 16, 1991. Decided Feb. 5, 1991. Paul P. Spaulding, III, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii, for plaintiffs-appellants. Ann Peterson, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii; David A. Ezra, District Judge, Presiding. Before: CHOY, SCHROEDER and PREGERSON, Circuit Judges. ORDER 1 Plaintiffs filed this action in the district court in Hawaii to halt the contemplated removal from Germany of obsolete chemical…