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Multiple agencies were involved in the investigation including the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.

Multiple agencies were involved in the investigation including the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.

Multiple agencies were involved in the investigation including the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.

Justice Stephen Breyer, tasked with handling the emergency filing, rejected the request without comment, The Hill newspaper reported.

The Supreme Court’s rejection of the union’s emergency filing means the closure will remain in effect.

The union's members don't know what legal steps they might take until they discuss the ruling with their legal team.

The union's members don't know what legal steps they might take until they discuss the ruling with their legal team.

The union's members don't know what legal steps they might take until they discuss the ruling with their legal team.

The Maine Lobstering Union filed an emergency application last week asking the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate a lower court ruling and reopen the roughly 950-square-mile area, which is slated to be closed through January – and every subsequent October through January – in an effort to protect the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. 

In imposing the sentence, Walker noted that the materials in this case depicted “the most vulnerable, youngest members of society, who are completely helpless, subject to the most profound terror imaginable.”