Senator's aide faces jail time for fising violation
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Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's fisheries aide has resigned and faces prison time after admitting to breaking commercial fisheries laws.
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US Coast Guard judge backs off key fishing case
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The Coast Guard administrative law judge whose harsh financial ruling against a former fisherman put the accused out of business, then was overturned through a Cabinet-level apology with reparations of $400,000, has removed himself from overseeing the follow-up to the case.
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Judge Parlen McKenna grants motion of recusal, removing himself from further involvement in Yacubian case
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BOSTON (Saving Seafood) July 28, 2011 -- Judge Parlen McKenna has granted a motion for recusal in the case of former New Bedford Scalloper Larry Yacubian. Saving Seafood first reported on July 8, that two Coast Guard administrative law judges were been reassigned to adjudicate additional legal requests in controversial NOAA enforcement cases. The cases, involving former New Bedford scalloper Larry Yacubian and the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction, were among the cases in which an independent special master found the defendants' rights so severely trampled that they received apologies for the wrongdoing from Secretary Gary Locke and NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco as well as reimbursement of the judge's imposed fines.
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Lawyer accuses judges hearing fishing cases of 'collusion'
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A former fisherman, awarded $400,000 in reparations from NOAA for a miscarriage of justice that cost him his boat and business but brought a fierce rebuttal from the trial judge, said Monday said that in the course of the rebuttal the judge might have libeled him.
But his lawyer is going further, saying that the entire group of Coast Guard administrative law judges who heard cases brought against fishermen and fishing industry businesses by the National Oceanic Administration was guilty of "collusion.''
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After legal loss, NE fishermen turn to Congress
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BOSTON (AP) — Fishing industry advocates who filled a Boston courtroom in March, hoping to persuade a federal judge to strike down new rules that set catch limits, got a blunt message from an opposing lawyer: If they really want change, they're in the wrong building, he said.
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