Day 1,660: tinned, statute, appellate

Herring—a silvery fish of the North Atlantic that can be smoked, pickled or, when young, tinned—is the unlikely star of Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo and Relentless v Department of Commerce.

Drawing on a line in a statute giving the agency licence to make regulations that are “necessary and appropriate…to prevent overfishing and rebuild overfished stocks”, in 2020 the nmfs required fishermen to bring an observer along with them on their boats—and to pay that person’s per-diem fee themselves.

The rule nevertheless found receptive audiences at two of America’s appellate courts.

The US Supreme Court is primed to recalibrate government power

Artwork of the day 
Verblife Tin
M.C. Escher
Date: 1963
Style: Op Art
Genre: tessellation

Word of the day 
tinned: Food that is tinned is put in a tin in order to preserve it:
statute: a law that has been formally approved and written down
appellate: involving an attempt to get a legal decision changed:
appellate court: or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal.

Quote of the day
“Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...”

― Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom