Too often in law, the results of your court victories don't come to much, a paper judgment that will never get paid, a dismissal that bounces around on appeal for years or motions that the judge sits on until they forget about it. So for once it's nice to see a postive, actual result for one of my cases. Back in December 2011, I had to defend the America Samoa Government's ability to revoke the clearance of a fishing boat accused of pollution violations in an injunction hearing. Maybe all the news outlets didn't get my name right, but it was a nice win in a preliminary injunction hearing on only a few days notice.
Jump ahead a year, and now ASG is looking to receive half-a-million dollars for its Nation Marine Sanctuaries Foundation from the criminal conviction of that pollution case. So there's a few years of funding for the Marine Sanctuaries of American Samoa that I had a small hand in securing. Yay!
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