by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 5, 2020 | In the News
The U.S. Department of Commerce is illegally charging herring fishers for the cost of a monitoring program that measures compliance with federal fishing standards, fishers claim in a new lawsuit. Seafreeze Fleet LLC and two subsidiaries that own trawlers that fish the...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 5, 2020 | Mark Chenoweth, Opinion
When Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from the denial of certiorari last week in Howard and Karen Baldwin v. U.S., he lamented that “Brand X has taken this Court to the precipice of administrative absolutism.” Given that Thomas himself authored NCTA v. Brand X...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 5, 2020 | In the News
The New Civil Liberties Alliance today filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island against the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries), as well...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 4, 2020 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC, March 4, 2020 – The New Civil Liberties Alliance today filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island against the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Marine Fisheries...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 4, 2020 | Blog
The Federal Communications Commission is proposing a new regulation to “promote more efficient resolution of hearings.” The Procedural Streamlining of Administrative Hearings Rule, as the FCC calls it, claims that none of its hearings require oral testimony....