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Administrative law and the Deepwater Horizon disaster

June 25, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Earlier this week, Judge Martin Feldman, in Hornbeck Offshore Services v. Salazar, issued a preliminary injunction overturning the Obama Administration's six-month moratorium on new deepwater well drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.  The plaintiffs, a collection of gulf-oil-dependent businesses, had ...

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Wait, I thought the Interior Department supports using the best available science?!?!

September 21, 2011 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Brandon Middleton Earlier this week, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gave a fairly routine political speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.  The subject of Salazar's speech was California's water, and the Secretary paid particular attention to the Bay Delta Conservation Plan and the need to use the best available sci ...

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The Interior Department and science : Congress steps up the pressure

October 19, 2011 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Brandon Middleton The last week has seen the Interior Department face numerous questions from members of Congress regarding scientific determinations made under the Endangered Species Act.  Last Thursday, the House Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight conducted a hearing on the role of science in ESA determinations, at which&# ...

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Ninth circuit denies rehearing in oyster farm case

January 14, 2014 | By TONY FRANCOIS

This morning the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied Drakes Bay Oyster Company’s petition for rehearing, and issued an amended opinion in the case which once again upholds the trial court’s decision to deny the oyster farm an injunction which would prevent the closure of the farm. The oyster farm will have to consider its … ...

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Drakes Bay Oyster Company to seek relief at United States Supreme Court

January 15, 2014 | By TONY FRANCOIS

Late yesterday, after the Ninth Circuit denied its petition for rehearing, Drakes Bay Oyster Company announced in a statement that it will seek relief in the United States Supreme Court.  The oyster farm is fighting for survival after the Department of the Interior refused to renew a permit that the farm needs to remain in … ...