Eleven environmental and hotel organizations will claim that the new Sectoral Protected Areas bill, signed into law on 30 July by President Hipolito Mejia, violates the Constitution, as reported in Diario Libre. The organizations are seeking to convince the Supreme Court of Justice to annul the law. The institutions protesting the law are the National Hotel & Restaurant Association, Association of Hotels of La Romana and Bayahibe, Consorcio Ambiental Dominicano, Grupo Ecologista Tinglar, Fundacion Msocoso Puello, Juventud Nacional Comrpometida, Llerena y Asociados, Cebse, Fundemar, Ricardo Briones, Unev and hundreds of private citizens. Lawyers Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman, Leila Roldan, Juan Miguel Castillo Pantaleon, Mariano Rodriguez, Iraima Capril, Angel Castillo, Manuel Berges hijo and Lino Vasquez, among others, will file their petition before the Supreme Court. They argue that the law disbands the protected areas system in place, disregards and eliminates limits established by law in some areas and reduces the limits of others. The Academy of Sciences also has stated that the legislation is brimming with errors, as reported in Hoy newspaper yesterday.