Legal Opinion
Flaherty v. Ross
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 9, 2019No. Civil Action No. 11-660 (TJK)PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TIMOTHY J. KELLY, United States District Judge
Plaintiffs Michael Flaherty, Captain Alan Hastbacka, and the Ocean River Institute filed their initial complaint in 2011. They sued the Secretary of Commerce, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Marine Fisheries Service ("the Service"), alleging that Defendants violated the Magnuson-Stevens Act and the Administrative Procedure Act in amending a federal fishery management plan covering the Atlantic herring fishery in the northeastern United States.
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