After lawyers submitted what could be their most consequential arguments yet to an appeals court, supporters of Drake’s Bay Oyster Company prepared to gather Friday at an around-the-clock vigil for the embattled cannery and its 31
employees.
An eleventh-hour appeal to save the oyster farm rests on three judges agreeing that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar did not have unassailable discretion to deny Kevin Lunny’s request for a permit to continue his operations in…