There’s a federal court case titled “United States vs. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins!”

There’s a federal court case titled “United States vs. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins!”

Federal court cases usually have fairly normal names like "Roe v. Wade," or "Brown v. Board of Education."

However, these case titles need to be accurate, and sometimes they just don't fit the mold. Such was the case with the 2008 case titled "United States of America, Tai Loong Hong Marine Products. Limited v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins."

You're just dying to know what this one was about, right? Tai Loong Hong Marine Products, Ltd. (TLH), a Hong Kong company, chartered an American ship, the King Diamond II.

The ship then went to meet foreign fishing vessels in the open ocean in order to purchase shark fins.

The Shark Finning Prohibition Act forbids anyone aboard a U.S. Fishing vessel from possessing shark fins obtained from prohibited "shark finning." Hence, the US felt that they could seize the "approximately 64,695 pounds of shark fins."

TLH argued that the King Diamond II was not a fishing vessel and as such, the act did not apply.

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