U.S. Supreme Court takes up fishermen's fight over US conservation funding

Yahoo Finance ^ | 5/1/23 | John Kruzel

[CFW]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the government can require commercial fishermen to help fund a program monitoring herring catches off New England's coast in a case that could undercut the regulatory power of federal agencies.

[CFW]

This will be an interesting case to watch as the Supreme Court once again takes up the issue of regulatory power of federal agencies.

Speaking of federal regulations, "Biden Has Added 220 Million Hours of Regulatory Paperwork Since His Inauguration".

https://reason.com/2023/05/01/presidential-paperwork/

[Erik Latranyi]

This is a HUGE case!!!

It may overturn the Chevron decision that allows regulatory agencies to write their own laws.

If that gets overturned, it will fall back on Congress to actually write legislation with clear rules rather than vague guidelines and “let the bureaucrats figure it out”

[PIF]

SCOTUS v Commercial Fishermen = loss for fishermen, every time it is tried. Usually there attorneys screw up or are betrayed in some other way, their actual arguments never being heard.

See:
U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON v. FISHING VESSEL ASSN., 443 U.S. 658 (1979)

443 U.S. 658

WASHINGTON ET AL. v. WASHINGTON STATE COMMERCIAL PASSENGER FISHING VESSEL
ASSOCIATION ET AL.

CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF WASHINGTON
No. 77-983.
Argued February 28, 1979.
Decided July 2, 1979.

[GranTorino]

Meanwhile china rapes the worlds oceans.

[PIF]

Yes that’s China. But not US fishermen who are so tightly regulated that some have needed a set of law books onboard.

China has no laws about fishing other than meeting fleet quotas set by the Party.