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旧金山西装店赢了！终止了加州对鳄鱼皮的禁令！
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/AP) — A suit filed by the owner of a San Francisco accessory store succeeded in stopping California’s ban on selling alligator leather products after a federal judge ruled Thursday that the ban is unenforceable, at least temporarily.
一名联邦法官周四裁定，加州禁止销售鳄鱼皮产品的禁令无法执行，至少暂时无法执行，旧金山一家配饰店的老板提起的诉讼成功地阻止了禁令。
Béatrice Amblard owns April In Paris, a custom luxury goods store in San Francisco’s Richmond District. A master leather artisan, Amblard opened her store after working for Hermès for 15 years.
Beatrice Amblard拥有巴黎的April，这是一家位于旧金山里士满区的奢侈品定制店。Amblard是一名皮革工艺大师，在为爱马仕工作了15年后开了这家店。
Accessories that use alligator skin make up a large portion of her business — she estimates they make up between 30 to 40% of her sales. So when the California legislature passed a ban on the sale of alligator and crocodile skins in the state last September, Amblard was concerned that the law could lead to her store shutting down.
鳄鱼皮饰品占了她生意的很大一部分，她估计鳄鱼皮饰品占了她生意的30%到40%。因此，去年9月，当加州立法机构通过一项禁止在该州销售鳄鱼和鳄鱼皮的禁令时，Amblard担心这项法律会导致她的商店关门。
Béatrice Amblard and her daughter Amelie in front of their store April In Paris
Beatrice Amblard和她的女儿Amelie在巴黎的商店前。
“Losing my business is not part of my program,” Almbard said over the phone Thursday.
“我不能失业”Almbard周四在电话中说。
The state of Louisiana and a coalition of companies in California, Florida and Texas recruited Almbard to be the plaintiff on a suit they filed against the state back in December of 2019.
在2019年12月，路易斯安那州和加利福尼亚州、佛罗里达州和得克萨斯州的一个公司联盟招募Almbard作为原告，起诉他们的州。
This week, Chief District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller of California’s Eastern District ruled that California’s ban on selling alligator products probably violates federal laws and the state cannot enforce it while other legal challenges make their ways through the court.
本周，加州东区首席地区法官Kimberly J. Mueller裁定，加州销售短吻鳄产品的禁令可能违反了联邦法律，在其他法律挑战尚未通过的情况下，加州无法执行该禁令。
“We are encouraged by the court’s decision. We know this is the first step and not the last. But it gives Louisiana’s vital alligator industry the ability to continue operating in California and beyond,” Bill Hogan, chair of the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission, said in a statement to the Associated Press.
“我们对法院的决定感到鼓舞。我们知道这是第一步，而不是最后一步。但这给了路易斯安那州至关重要的短吻鳄产业继续在加州和其他地方经营的能力，”路易斯安那州野生动物和渔业委员会主席比尔·霍根在给美联社的一份声明中说。
California’s law also covers products made from two crocodile species — Nile and saltwater — which also can be sold legally under an international conservation treaty and U.S. laws.
加州的法律也涵盖了由尼罗河和咸水两种鳄鱼制成的产品，这两种鳄鱼也可以根据国际保护条约和美国法律合法销售。
Louisiana and the other plaintiffs made a strong showing that federal law, including the Endangered Species Act, controls trade in those products and preempts California from barring trade in them, Mueller wrote. She rejected California’s argument that it was only regulating trade within the state.
米勒写道，路易斯安那州和其他原告有力地证明，包括《濒危物种法》(Endangered Species Act)在内的联邦法律控制了这些产品的贸易，并先发制人，阻止了加州禁止这些产品的贸易。她驳斥了加州的说法，即它只是在州内规范贸易。
Mueller’s order follows a temporary order that halted enforcement in December.
在穆勒发出这一命令之前，去年12月的一项临时命令暂停了执行。
“Our office is reviewing the court’s decision,” the California attorney general’s press office said in an email.
“我们的办公室正在审查法院的决定，”加州总检察长的新闻办公室在电子邮件中说。
California’s arguments centered on “ability to enforce their policy goals,” while challengers showed “a likelihood of serious and far-reaching harm to their businesses and the managed conservation scheme they describe,” the judge wrote. She said that tipped “the balance of hardships … sharply in favor of the plaintiffs.”
法官写道，加州的争论集中在“执行政策目标的能力”上，而挑战者们则表现出“对他们的企业和他们所描述的有管理的保护计划可能造成严重而深远的损害”。她说，这扭转了“困难的平衡……大大有利于原告。”
Harvests and hide sales of American alligators and the two crocodile species are highly regulated, both for their own sake and because they look like other protected species.
美国短吻鳄和这两种鳄鱼的收成和隐藏销售受到高度管制，这既是为了它们自身的利益，也是因为它们看起来像其他受保护的物种。
Bespoke alligator bag of featuring custom green alligator skins, designed by Béatrice Amblard (April In Paris)
碧翠丝·安布拉德(Beatrice Amblard)设计的定制鳄鱼皮包
“The crocodile industry is now worth over 100 million dollars a year, the illegal trade has all but vanished, and crocodiles are far more abundant than they were 50 years ago,” Dilys Roe, of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, said in a sworn statement backing up the companies’ request to prevent enforcement of California’s law.
“鳄鱼行业目前的市值超过1亿美元一年,非法贸易几乎消失了,和鳄鱼比50年前更丰富,“迪莉斯罗伊,国际自然保护联盟说誓词备份加州公司的请求,防止执法的法律。
She said enforcement would do “profound and immediate” harm to crocodile populations and “thousands of poor people who rely on income earned from collecting eggs for crocodile farming.”
她说，强制执行将对鳄鱼种群和“成千上万靠收集鳄鱼蛋来赚取收入的穷人”造成“深刻而直接”的伤害。
Environmental and animal rights groups contend gator products’ similar appearances still pose a danger to endangered or threatened species, including the endangered Chinese alligator — the only other alligator species in the world — and the Nile and saltwater crocodile, which are threatened in some areas but not in others.
环境和动物权益组织认为，鳄鱼产品的类似外观仍然对濒危或受威胁的物种构成威胁，包括濒危的中国扬子鳄——世界上唯一的其他短吻鳄——以及尼罗河鳄和咸水鳄，它们在一些地区受到威胁，但在其他地区没有。
Almbard says she’s happy about the decision, as it’s been difficult enough to keep the store open during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Almbard说，她对这个决定感到高兴，因为在COVID-19大流行期间，维持这家商店的营业已经够困难的了。
“We have a year before anything else will be decided,” Almbard said. “We just know for right now we’re in the safe zone.”
Almbard说:“在做出任何决定之前，我们还有一年的时间。“我们现在只知道我们在安全地带。”
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