Alfa International Seafood, Inc. v. Pritzker

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

Amit P. Mehta, United States District Judge

Before the court is Defendant-Intervenor-Applicants’ (“Applicants”) Motion to Intervene. See Mot. to Intervene, ECF No. 24 [hereinafter Mot. to Intervene]. The Applicants are three environmental groups — Ocea-na, Inc., the Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., and the Center for Biological Diversity — who seek to enter this case to defend against Plaintiffs’ challenge to the Seafood Import Monitoring Program, 81 Fed. Reg. 88,975 (Dec. 9, 2016), otherwise known as the “Seafood Traceability Rule.”

During the telephone…