PAUL WATSON, Founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, exists the United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit in Seattle, Washington on November 6, 2013. The Institute of Cetacean Research, Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha, Ltd., Tomoyuki Ogawa, Toshiyuki Miura and Hiroyuki Komura is accusing him of interfering with their whale hunt in the Southern Ocean, potentially violating an injunction issued by the court last December 2012. (copyright Karen Ducey/KarenDucey.com)