Here’s the video of today’s Ninth Circuit oral arguments in Drake’s Bay Oyster Co. v. Jewell, the case about an oyster farm in Marin County’s Point Reyes National Seashore, and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s decision to not renew its license. The Ninth Circuit has posted the briefs of the parties and amici here.
Here’s our initial post on the case, and here’s our follow up (about one of the amicus briefs).
Here’s a plain language preview of the issues and the arguments.
Predictions? It seems to us that two of the judges are skeptical of the farm’s arguments, and one may be inclined to agree, but there was nothing we saw on the video that would lead us to think the outcome is obvious.