An appellate court issued an emergency order on Monday that will allow Drake’s Bay Oyster Company to continue doing business while the embattled cannery wages a legal battle against the Obama administration.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted oysterman Kevin Lunny’s eleventh-hour request “because there are serious legal questions and the balance of hardships tips sharply in [Mr. Lunny’s] favor.”
The ruling allows the cannery’s offshore operations…