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Article: REAR ADM. LANDRY ISSUES STATEMENT CONCERNING MEDIA COVERAGE OF COAST GUARD ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 27, 2007
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Coast Guard issued the following press release:
The article "Justice Capsized," in Sunday's Baltimore Sun, and Tuesday's editorial "A listing court" in the same newspaper, emphasize statistics that may leave readers with an erroneous impression that I would like to correct. Pending litigation prevents me from addressing other allegations in the article and editorial.
In an industry with over 200,000 mariners, few violations are serious enough to reach administrative law judges. The Coast Guard only initiates action when failing to do so might endanger the public or the environment.
More than half of over 6,300 charges against mariners since ...