Chief Justice Roberts' Statement Questions Broad Presidential Authority Under the Antiquities Act of 1906
By EsqSocial Corporation 25/03/21
On March 22, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in a case that upheld President Obama’s designation under the Antiquities Act of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument in the northern Atlantic Ocean. In Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Ass’n v. Ross, 945 F.3d 535 (D.C. Cir. 2019), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected the claim that the designation, which covered roughly 5,000 square miles of ocean, was overly broad and improperly...
By: Perkins Coie