Relentless Inc v. U.S. Department of Commerce

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND ___________________________________ ) RELENTLESS INC., et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) C.A. No. 20-108 WES ) U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, ) et al., ) ) Defendant. ) ___________________________________) OPINION AND ORDER WILLIAM E. SMITH, District Judge. A recently promulgated regulation requires commercial herring fishing vessels in New England to pay the daily salaries of at- sea monitors. Plaintiffs argue, inter alia, that the Magnuson- Stevens Act does not permit industry-funded monitoring; the regulation’s outsized impact on…