D.C. Appeals Court May Uphold Fishery Monitoring Rule Even Without 'Chevron' Doctrine
Yesterday, the issue of whether a group of New Jersey herring fishermen should have to pay for onboard observers was argued before the D.C. Court of Appeals once again, this time 'on remand' from the U.S. Supreme Court, which overturned the 40-year-old legal doctrine last June.
Shortly after the hearing, Reuters News Service reported that two of the three Court of Appeals judges who previously upheld the rule “appeared open to doing so again after assessing whether the Magnuson-Stevens Act would allow for such an ...
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