… The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a nonprofit civil rights organization, is representing three fishing companies: Relentless Inc., Huntress Inc. and Seafreeze Fleet LLC… “On a daily basis, before you leave the dock, you have to tell the government what you’re going to fish for. You have a government ankle bracelet on your boat called…

Zhonette Brown grew up on a farm in Nebraska, where she says she absorbed the values of accountability, self-sufficiency, and duty to one’s family and community…

… On the Washington D.C. courthouse steps after the hearing, Meghan Lapp, fisheries liaison at Seafreeze Ltd. In Point Judith, R.I., the homeport of Relentless, said the protests wound their way through fisheries council meetings and NMFS officials to no avail. So fishermen went to court – and appealed the earlier decisions against them. “I was…

… Representing the New Jersey fishermen will be veteran attorney Paul Clement, a former solicitor general under the Bush administration. Another lawsuit brought by fishermen based in Rhode Island will be argued by attorneys for the New Civil Liberties Alliance… “Overruling Chevron is overdue,” said Mark Chenoweth, president of NCLA. “Many administrative state pathologies can be traced…

… “Congress needs to do its job, and not delegate these important sort of life and death decisions for companies to a non-responsive agency,” Zhonette Brown, general counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, told Just The News. The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) is a nonpartisan nonprofit that seeks to protect constitutional freedoms from violations of…

… John J. Vecchione, senior litigation counsel with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a legal organization… that is representing the Rhode Island fishers, says that Chevron has been ineffective and not rooted in the Constitution. “If judges find ambiguity and get to [Chevron] step 2, the government wins something like 95 percent of time,” he says. “So…