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Navy In Case Over Sonar Use, Whales <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is lifting restrictions on the
Navy's use of sonar in training exercises off the California coast, a defeat
for environmental groups who say the sonar can harm whales.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>An endangered blue whale spouts near Long Beach, Calif.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>The court, in its first decision of the term, voted 5-4 that the
Navy needs to conduct realistic training exercises to respond to potential
threats by enemy submarines.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Environmental groups persuaded lower federal courts in California
to impose restrictions on sonar use in submarine-hunting exercises to protect
whales and other marine mammals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>The Bush administration argued that there is little evidence of
harm to marine life in more than 40 years of exercises off the California
coast.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'>Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, which was
joined by Justices Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence
Thomas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>The court did not deal with the merits of the claims put forward
by the environmental groups. It said, rather, that federal courts abused their
discretion by ordering the Navy to limit sonar use in some cases and to turn it
off altogether in others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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