Lobstermen’s Constitutional Challenge To Maine Electronic Tracking Rule Dismissed

( December 5, 2024, 4:50 PM EST) -- BANGOR, Maine — Although a Maine federal judge sympathized with some of the privacy concerns raised by a group of lobstermen who sought to have a new electronic tracking rule declared unconstitutional, he found that their claims were precluded under sovereign immunity and that the rule meets with requirements for conducting warrantless searches in a closely regulated industry....