Seafarers International Union of North America, Appellants/cross-Appellees v. United States Coast Guard, Appellees/cross-Appellants

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• explaining that several Supreme Court decisions “broadly permit user fees in connection with the provision of specific services”
• analyzing licensing fees imposed by Coast Guard and cautioning against weighing public versus private benefits of receiving the licenses because work of all public agencies is inherently in the public interest
• analyzing licensing fees imposed by Coast Guard and cautioning against weighing public versus private benefits of receiving the licenses because work of all public agencies is inherently in the public interest
• “[T]he measure of fees is the cost to the government of providing the service, not the intrinsic value of the service to the recipient”
• \[A]n agency is not free to add extra licensing procedures and then charge a user fee merely because the agency has general authority to regulate in a particular area.\
• “It is logical that the agency should also be permitted to charge the applicant a fee to recover the expense of whatever reasonable procedure is employed by the Coast Guard to comply with the statute.”

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