"Dave" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 22 May 2008 09:25:56 -0700, "claus" said:

House Committee Passes Clean Boating Act of 2008, Moves Bill to Full House
for Consideration
Time running out for America's boaters; NMMA continues call for action

I haven't read the case referred to in the article. But if the summary is
accurate and the case related only to ballast water from commercial
vessels,
then this whole thing is a tempest in a teapot. Anything the court said
relating to recreational vessels would be what lawyers call
"dicta"--language having no value whatever as precedent.

Well, duh, it appears you are in error. Why would the industry go to the
trouble of writing and sponsoring legislation to exclude recreational
boating from some liberal judge's legislating from the bench if they could
just appeal the "dicta" to a higher court, get it overturned and return to
normalcy?

--
Gregory Hall