A businesswoman in Hawaii is suing the Biden administration for hurting her business by illegally banning swimming with spinner dolphins, a popular tourist and therapeutic activity that generates a living for many residents of the 50th state. Spinner dolphins “received their common name because they are often seen leaping and spinning out of the water … up to seven times in the air before falling back into the water,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports. The legal problem, according to the Sacramento-based Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) a not-for-profit national public interest law firm that is representing the plaintiffs, is that the low-level federal bureaucrat in the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) who issued the new regulation that bans these dolphin encounters had no authority under the U.S. Constitution to make the rule. PLF attorney Michael Poon said the authority to issue regulations under the Marine Mammal Protection Act is …
Feds Sued for Banning Swimming With Dolphins, Hurting Hawaiian Economy
March 31, 2022
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