Six captains and five companies from Florida and Louisiana can represent others in a lawsuit challenging new federal regulations for nearly 1,300 charter boats across the Gulf of Mexico, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan certified the suit early this month as a class action for the people who take small…

Charter boat captains in Southwest Florida and around the Gulf are now part of a class action lawsuit against a federal agency over mandatory electronic monitoring. Last year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s marine fisheries created the For-Hire Electronic Reporting Amendment mandating that charter and head boats with federal permits needed to buy and…

The National Labor Relations Board defended before a federal appeals court its decision that the publisher of the conservative online magazine The Federalist illegally threatened employees when he tweeted he would send them “back to the salt mine” if they tried to form a union. Read the full article TweetShareShare0 Shares

Reversing the rule could “once again force schools to deprive accused students and faculty of constitutionally guaranteed safeguards like the right to confront the evidence used against them,” said Caleb Kruckenberg, an attorney with the New Civil Liberties Alliance. He added that despite multiple federal courts upholding due process in campus disciplinary hearings, “the department…

The National Labor Relations Board on Monday pooh-poohed a Third Circuit challenge by The Federalist’s publisher against the agency’s order to delete a tweet saying he would send employees “to the salt mine” if they unionized, arguing that the company’s claim the tweet was a joke carries no weight. Read the full article TweetShareShare0 Shares

A lawyer handling the federal appeal in Atlanta of the CDC eviction moratorium on tenants during the Covid pandemic said Friday he holds little hope the Supreme Court will use a case it received Thursday to stop the moratorium. “I doubt it will be successful, I hope it is, but if not I’m looking for…