Our mission is to protect the habitat of Puget Sound tidelands from the underregulated expansion of new and intensive shellfish aquaculture methods. These methods were never anticipated when the Shoreline Management Act was passed. They are transforming the natural tideland ecosystems in Puget Sound and are resulting in a fractured shoreline habitat. In South Puget Sound much of this has been done with few if any meaningful shoreline permits and with limited public input. It is exactly what the Shoreline Management Act was intended to prevent.

Get involved and contact your elected officials to let them you do not support aquaculture's industrial transformation of Puget Sound's tidelands.

Governor Inslee:
Showing posts with label frivolous litigation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frivolous litigation. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Drakes Bay Oyster Company: Petition for En Banc Hearing is Denied

 
[Update 1/16: Drakes Bay Oyster Company's public relations attorney Peter Prows has announced he plans to appeal the 9th Circuit's denial of an en banc rehearing to the Supreme Court. If that doesn't work he claims to have plans to return to the District Court for further litigation. Mr. Prows and Drake's Bay Oyster may want to consider at what point their legal decisions will be viewed as frivolous. Lawyers advertising in the Yellow Pages for clients may be acceptable to some. Advertising through frivolous litigation is viewed quite differently, both by potential clients and the courts. Especially after having been ruled against so many times.]

"The petition for rehearing en banc is DENIED. No further petitions for en banc or panel rehearing shall be permitted."
 

"The full court has been advised of the petition

for rehearing en banc and no judge has requested a vote

on whether to rehear the matter en banc."
 
United States Court of Appeals
For the 9th Circuit, January 14, 2014

 
Completion of the only marine wilderness
area on the west coast outside of Alaska
will at last be allowed to happen.