DOJ Lawyer Withdraws From Case in Alaska District Court Over Jones Act Penalties
Jacquelyn Traini, a lawyer listed as counsel for the U.S. in a key action over hefty Jones Act penalties, has withdrawn from the case and no longer will serve as counsel of record for the U.S. Copies of all pleadings…
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will be sent instead to Assistant U.S. Attorney Siobhan McIntyre. The case was brought by two shipping companies contesting the over $25 million in Jones Act penalties for their shipments of fish from Alaska to the East Coast of the U.S. CBP said the two companies' seafood shipments from Alaska to the eastern U.S. via the Bayside, New Brunswick, Canada, port violate the Jones Act, which requires shipping between U.S. ports to be conducted by U.S.-flagged, -made and -owned ships. Kloosterboer International Forwarding and Alaska Reefer Management used a Canada-flagged ship (see 2109170048) (Kloosterboer International Forwarding v. U.S., D. Alaska #3:21-00198).