From Fox News website:
ON – The Supreme Court has unanimously sided with Idaho property owners whose plans to build a home were blocked by an Environmental Protection Agency order declaring the property contained wetlands.
In an opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia, the court says Wednesday that the EPA cannot threaten fines of more than $30,000 a day without giving property owners the ability to challenge its actions.
The decision is a victory for Mike and Chantell Sackett, whose property near a scenic lake has sat undisturbed since the EPA ordered a halt in work in 2007. The agency said part of the property was a wetlands that cannot be disturbed without a permit.
The couple complained there was no reasonable way to challenge the order.
Rush will cover it.
It was unanimous at the Supreme Court?
So even a wise Latina and the ACLU representative to the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, agree that the EPA is out of control here.
Well, this is a smackdown to Obama isn’t it?
Wow! I wonder if Ginsburg is aware somebody wrote an opinion for her and voted against the EPA?
ON – The Supreme Court has unanimously sided with Idaho property owners whose plans to build a home were blocked by an Environmental Protection Agency order declaring the property contained wetlands.
In an opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia, the court says Wednesday that the EPA cannot threaten fines of more than $30,000 a day without giving property owners the ability to challenge its actions.
The decision is a victory for Mike and Chantell Sackett, whose property near a scenic lake has sat undisturbed since the EPA ordered a halt in work in 2007. The agency said part of the property was a wetlands that cannot be disturbed without a permit.
The couple complained there was no reasonable way to challenge the order.
Thank you for the above information, Dr. Sivana (post #7)
Here's the SCOTUS opinion: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-1062.pdf
“...the EPA cannot threaten fines of more than $30,000 a day without giving property owners the ability to challenge its actions.”
The EPA will just change to meet that guide from SCOTUS. $29,999.00 per day is still enough to break anyone.