ELR Citation: 48 ELR 20176
No(s). 17-406 (JEB) (D.D.C. Oct 5, 2018) (Boasberg, J.)

A district court upheld President Barack Obama's 2016 proclamation of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts off the New England coast as a marine national monument. Commercial fishing associations argued that the monument exceeded the president's authority under the Antiquities Act because it lies ent...