Given how the Independence Day holiday fell this year, we’re just now getting around to last week’s Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs. I don’t know whether courts were clearing their dockets to get out to the fireworks shows, but I do know this: It was another incredibly competitive cycle.
First up are teams led by Paul Clement of Clement & Murphy and Roman Martinez of Latham & Watkins who argued the cases where the U.S. Supreme Court deep-sixed the Chevron doctrine, the precedent that gave federal agencies deference in the interpretation of statutes they administer. Both represented fishing companies challenging a National Marine Fisheries Service rule forcing them to pay for federal monitors that may be assigned to their boats. Clement & Murphy paired with Cause of Action Institute to represent Loper Bright Enterprises, a group of herring fishermen from Cape May, New Jersey, and Latham paired with the New Civil Liberties Alliance to represent companies that operate two vessels in the Atlantic herring fishery. Joining Clement on the briefs were Andrew Lawrence and Chadwick Harper of Clement & Murphy and Ryan Mulvey, Eric Bolinder and R. James Valvo III of Cause of Action Institute. Joining Martinez were Charles Dameron, Mike Clemente, Bill Seidleck, Alex Siemers and Jack Shapiro of Latham and John Vecchione, Mark Chenoweth, Kara Rollins and Philip Hamburger of the NCLA.
