ELR Citation: 52 ELR 20083
No(s). 21-1873 (1st Cir. Jul 12, 2022)

The First Circuit vacated a district court order preliminarily enjoining NOAA's partial seasonal closure of a Maine lobster fishery to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales. A fishing union argued the closure was an arbitrary and capricious application of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, a...