Federal Judge Voids NOAA Letter Opening the Pacific Monument to Fishing

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• Marine09/27/2026@FishingDesk

  Trump Opens the Pacific Remote Islands Marine Monument to Commercial Fishing

  White House, 1600, Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Ward 2, Washington, District of Columbia, 20500, United StatesUnited States

  

  Starts 04/17/2025CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE1.4 years agoThe Federal Register^[1][2] prints it as 'Proclamation 10918 of April 17, 2025, Unleashing American Commercial Fishing in the Pacific'.

  Proclamation 10918 lifted the ban on commercial fishing in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, more than 400,000 square miles of ocean around Wake, Johnston, Jarvis and other US islands, saying the closure had pushed US fleets offshore.

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• Marine09/27/2026@FishingDesk

  Trump Opens Papahānaumokuākea and Two More Monuments to Commercial Fishing

  White House, 1600, Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Ward 2, Washington, District of Columbia, 20500, United StatesUnited States

  

  Starts 06/11/2026CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE109 days agoThe proclamation is signed 'this eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-six' (Federal Register^[1][3], 17 June 2026).

  Proclamation 11035 removed monument-based bans on commercial fishing in parts of Papahānaumokuākea beyond 50 nautical miles, the Islands Unit of the Mariana Trench monument and waters 12 to 50 nautical miles around Rose Atoll, for US-flagged vessels.

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• Marine09/27/2026@FishingDesk

  CCAMLR Ends in Stalemate on Antarctic Marine Reserves and Krill Rules

  Macquarie Street, Hobart, Tasmania 7000, AustraliaCommission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

  

  10/20/2025 - 10/31/2025CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE343 days agoCCAMLR^[1] meeting page for CCAMLR-44, Hobart, Australia: 'Meeting Start Date/Time: Monday, 20 October 2025 ... Meeting End Date/Time: Friday, 31 October 2025'.

  The Antarctic fisheries commission's 2025 meeting in Hobart closed without new marine protected areas, vetoed by Russia and China, and without a rule to spread krill catches after the fishery hit its catch limit for the first time.

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• Law09/23/2026@LawDesk

  Judge Rules Sable Offshore Needed Coastal Permits for Pipeline Repairs

  Santa Barbara County Courthouse, 1100, Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, 93121, United StatesSable Offshore

  

  Starts 10/15/2025CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE348 days agoStated as a completed event, per independent.com^[1]: "Late this past Wednesday afternoon, Anderle stuck to his tentative ruling" in an article dated Fri Oct 17, 2025.

  Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Thomas Anderle finalized his tentative ruling against Sable Offshore, holding that the company's repair work at 121 sites along its 135-mile Gaviota Coast pipeline required California Coastal Commission development permits and violated the Coastal Act. The ruling leaves intact the injunction halting further repairs and keeps the Commission's $18 million fine a live issue.

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• Law09/23/2026@LawDesk

  Judge Geck Upholds Injunction Against Sable Offshore Pipeline Restart

  Santa Barbara County Courthouse, 1100, Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, 93121, United StatesSable Offshore

  

  Starts 04/17/2026CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE164 days agoStated as a completed event, per independent.com^[1]: "On Friday morning, in the Santa Barbara courtroom of Judge Donna Geck... Geck refused to lift the injunction," with the article dated Fri Apr 17, 2026.

  Santa Barbara County Judge Donna Geck refused to lift the injunction blocking Sable Offshore Corp. from restarting its Santa Ynez Unit pipelines, rejecting for the first time the company's claim that a federal Defense Production Act order overrides California law. She set a May 22 hearing on whether Sable, which resumed moving oil in March, should be held in contempt.

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• Law09/23/2026@LawDesk

  Federal Judge Rules the DPA Order Overrides California on the Santa Ynez Pipeline

  United States Courthouse, 350, West 1st Street, Civic Center, Downtown, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, United StatesSable Offshore

  

  Starts 08/19/2026CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE40 days agoStated as done, per E&E News (19 Aug 2026): the court "allows Sable Offshore to keep carrying oil"; Noozhawk^[3] and Bloomberg Government date the ruling to the same day, two days before the Justice^[1] Department's 21 August release.

  The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied California's bid to suspend a Defense Production Act order requiring operation of Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Pipeline, holding the federal order lawfully preempts state efforts to shut it down. The court also shifted pipeline safety oversight under the consent decree from California's Office of the State Fire Marshal to the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

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• Law09/23/2026@LawDesk

  Ninth Circuit Rejects Bid to Block Sable Offshore Pipeline Restart

  US Court of Appeals 9 Circuit, 95, 7th Street, South of Market, Tenderloin, San Francisco, California, 94103, United StatesSable Offshore

  

  Starts 12/31/2025CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE271 days agoStated as an accomplished fact, per independent.com^[1]: "The December 31 court ruling was terse, offering no insights as to how the judges arrived at their conclusion."

  A two-judge Ninth Circuit panel turned down an emergency appeal by the Environmental Defense Center and Center for Biological Diversity seeking to block the federal restart permit granted to Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Unit pipelines, sending the company's stock surging. The terse December 31 order is not the end: the court put the case on an expedited schedule, with its first deadline on January 26.

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• Marine09/27/2026@FishingDesk

  Trump Signs an Executive Order to Expand Saltwater Recreational Fishing

  White House, 1600, Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Ward 2, Washington, District of Columbia, 20500, United StatesUnited States

  

  Starts 09/17/2026CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE11 days agoThe Federal Register^[1][2] prints it as 'Executive Order 14430 of September 17, 2026, Restoring American Saltwater Angling and Recreation'.

  Executive Order 14430 makes marine recreational fishing a consideration in all federal ocean decisions and orders NOAA to replace mail-in catch surveys with app reporting and to use states' data where its own MRIP estimates are unreliable.

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• Law09/23/2026@LawDesk

  Judge Geck Upholds the Injunction Blocking Sable's Onshore Pipeline Restart

  Santa Barbara County Courthouse, 1100, Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, 93121, United StatesSable Offshore

  

  Starts 02/27/2026CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE213 days agoStated as a completed action, per biologicaldiversity.org^[1]: "A Santa Barbara Superior Court today upheld its July preliminary injunction" in a release dated February 27, 2026.

  A Santa Barbara Superior Court upheld its July preliminary injunction blocking Sable Offshore Corp. from restarting the Las Flores onshore pipeline system that ruptured at Refugio State Beach in 2015, requiring 10 court days' notice before any restart. The ruling also clarifies that the Trump administration's December move to seize control of the system and issue an emergency special permit does not affect the court's prior decision.

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• Transport09/24/2026@CityDesk

  Judge Rules Trump Administration Cannot Kill NYC Congestion Pricing

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse, 500, Pearl Street, Five Points, Lower Manhattan, Manhattan, New York County, New York, 10007, United StatesUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York

  

  Starts 03/03/2026CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE209 days agoStated as firm on the opinion itself: "Filed 03/03/26", "OPINION AND ORDER", signed by Lewis J. Liman; Streetsblog^[3] and NY1^[4] reported it the same day.

  In a 149-page opinion, Judge Lewis Liman held that USDOT unlawfully terminated the federal agreement behind Manhattan's congestion toll, and that any attempt to enforce Sean Duffy's letters ending it would be unlawful.

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• Law09/24/2026@LawDesk

  Judge Dismisses the Trump Administration's Antisemitism Suit Against Harvard

  Moakley US Courthouse, 1, Courthouse Way, Seaport, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 02210, United StatesHarvard University

  

  Starts 08/13/2026CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE46 days agoStated as firm, per the order itself (harvard.edu^[1] copy of Doc 65 in 1:26-cv-11352-RGS): "Filed 08/13/26", "MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO DISMISS August 13, 2026".

  Judge Richard Stearns threw out the Justice Department's Title VI suit seeking to claw back Harvard's federal funding, finding it had not pled any ongoing violation after the government's June 2025 notice.

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• Justice09/24/2026@LawDesk

  Judge Orders an End to the Guard's Months-Long LA Deployment

  Phillip Burton Federal Building & United States Courthouse, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102

  

  Starts 12/10/2025CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE292 days agoCalifornia DOJ release dated "Wednesday, December 10, 2025": the court "today" granted a preliminary injunction, stayed "until December 15, 2025".^[1]

  Judge Charles Breyer granted California a preliminary injunction ending the continued federalization of the California National Guard troops still in and around Los Angeles, more than five months after they were sent.

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