Three Dungeness crab boat captains have sued the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the agency’s director, Kelly Susewind, over its Global Positioning System monitoring program…

Dreamland Baby Co. is suing the Consumer Product Safety Commission and other government agencies in D.C. federal court, alleging that the CPSC broke its own rules when a “rogue” commissioner told retailers that its infant weighted sleep products were dangerous…

The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit public interest law firm, has sued the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) on behalf of the state’s crabbers over its electronic monitoring of Dungeness crab fishing vessels, arguing that the program is unconstitutional. “The desire of agencies to always know a regulated party’s…

The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) has filed a lawsuit against the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Electronic Monitoring Program. This program uses GPS tech to track the location and movements of every state-licensed boat fishing for Coastal Dungeness crab, regardless of whether it is actively fishing or not. The NCLA said the program is sustained by making…

The New Civil Liberties Alliance and the American Livestock Markets and Dealers Association, on Nov. 4, 2024, both asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to delay implementation of the Animal Disease Traceability rule that requires breeding cattle and bison moving interstate, and bangs vaccinated heifers to be tagged with an electronically readable/radio frequency (RFID) button…

More internal government communications will soon be revealed in a high-profile censorship case that already hit the U.S. Supreme Court, thanks to a Friday court ruling in Missouri v. Biden. The historic free speech case uncovered that federal officials, all the way up to President Joe Biden, pressured social media companies to remove specific posts and…