ISLAND AD-VANTAGES • June 18, 2020
Groups representing Maine lobstermen will for the first time make their case to a federal judge on June 18 in the second phase of a lawsuit about protecting North Atlantic right whales. The Maine Lobstermen’s Association (MLA) and the Maine Lobstering Union (MLU) will file briefs by June 18 in U.S.District Court in Boston. Neither has been heard by the court. During the first phase of the suit, the court allowed only environmental groups and the federal government to make their cases. But now the lawsuit has entered the second phase, and the court granted intervenor status to the MLA and MLU.