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Seafreeze Fleet LLC, a Rhode Island herring fishing company, and two of its fishing ships have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule or revise Chevron deference and clarify whether the Magnuson-Stevens Act requires fishing companies to pay for federally mandated at-sea monitors. Petitioners are asking the Supreme Court to reverse a First Circuit decision and rule that the National Marine Fisheries Service overstepped its authority by requiring industry-paid monitors on fishing vessels.

[To accompany Case Law Update "Rhode Island Fishing Company Petitions SCOTUS to Abandon Chevron Deference and Rule that NMFS Overstepped its Authority by Requiring Industry-Paid At-Sea Monitors ” from Brooks Animal Law Digest Issue No. 195]