Despite a judge\u2019s ruling Monday, which ordered the city of San Diego to start dispersing La Jolla’s harbor seal colony within 72 hours, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger hours later approved a bill that representatives from the mayor and city attorney’s office said would nullify the judge\u2019s order saving the colony. “The city\u2019s going back to court on Thursday,” said Animal Protection and Rescue League\u2019s SealWatch attorney Brian Pease,regarding an emergency ex parte hearing to introduce the signed legislation. “It\u2019s looking good [for the seals] and it was just in the nick of time,” he said. Ongoing court battles over the Children’s Pool \u2014 mainly whether Judge Yuri Hoffman could enforce a previous ruling ordering the city to return the area to its 1941 condition by dispersing a colony of seals \u2014 climaxed July 20 at Hoffman\u2019s hearing to decide which seal dispersal plan was most efficient. A statement released from Mayor Jerry Sanders\u2019 office said the city would comply with Hoffman’s order, “while all research indicates the costly undertaking of seal dispersal is unlikely to achieve the goal of improving water quality at the Children’s Pool.” While Sanders said the city would use humane methods to disperse the seals in accordance with federal regulations, he urged activists to behave peacefully during the process. “A bill permitting the seals to remain at the Children’s Pool is currently awaiting Governor Schwarzenegger’s signature,” Sanders’ office said in a press statement Monday; Schwarzenegger approved the bill hours later. “We expect that before long, this costly exercise will be concluded,” the statement continued. For more information about the Children’s Pool, visit www.senate.ca.gov\/kehoe, www.childrenspool.org or www.friendsoftheseals.com www.aprl.org www.aprl.org\/seals.html.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Despite a judge\u2019s ruling Monday, which ordered the city of San Diego to start dispersing La Jolla’s harbor seal colony within 72 hours, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger hours later approved a bill that representatives from the mayor and city attorney’s office said would nullify the judge\u2019s order saving the colony. “The city\u2019s going back to court […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"Fate of seals at Children\u2019s Pool still in murky water","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11593,11561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-no-images","category-peninsula-beacon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}