State v. Dutch Harbor Seafoods, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that strict liability commercial fishing violations are “minor criminal offenses in substance and are to be enforced and adjudicated using criminal procedures,” even though there is no right to a jury trial or to court-appointed counsel
• stating that “the term ‘quasi-criminal’ encompasses minor offenses which are criminal rather than civil in nature but do not meet the Baker test for the right to jury trial”
• addressing strict liability violations including possession of fish taken by an unregistered vessel
• $3000-$6000 fine does not connote criminality in context of highly regulated, multi-million dollar fishing industry

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).