United States First Circuit

Order dismissing plaintiff's complaint challenging the constitutionality of a Department of Environmental Management regulation restricting the number of lobsters which may be harvested by methods other than lobster traps is affirmed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/12/2005
• Published 12/12/2005

Judges

• CYR, Senior Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL and CYR, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert J. Caron, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul A. Lenzini, with whom Gary Powers, Department of Environmental Management, and Terence Tierney, Department of Attorney General, were on brief, for appellees., R. Justin Smith, Environmental and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice, with whom Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General, Andrew Mergen, and John A. Bryson, U.S. Department of Justice, were on brief, for intervenor, appellee.