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Supreme Court Sides With Private Property Owner in Landmark EPA Case
The Blaze ^ | March 21, 2012 | Benny Johnson

Posted on 03/21/2012 1:32:57 PM PDT by Mechanicos

Today, the Supreme Court has sided with an Idaho couple in Sackett v. EPA, a private property rights case, ruling they have the right to go to court to challenge an Environmental Protection Agency policy that blocked construction of their new home and threatened fines of more than $30,000 a day.

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: constitution; epa; sackett; sackettvepa; scotus; supremecourt; tyranny; unanimous
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It's a Step in the right direction.
1 posted on 03/21/2012 1:33:07 PM PDT by Mechanicos
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To: Mechanicos

praise God for small miracles.


2 posted on 03/21/2012 1:43:14 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: Mechanicos

I hope he burns a pile of old truck tires in his backyard in celebration.


3 posted on 03/21/2012 1:44:49 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Mechanicos
The fact that this has been going on for 5 years is important. That means it started under a Republican president. Career bureaucrats are leftist in all areas of government and need to be flushed by a combination of Republican presidents and congress. It will be difficult and take a long time but it is a necessary part of fixing government.
4 posted on 03/21/2012 1:46:35 PM PDT by mgpilot
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To: Mechanicos

Enjoy it while you can, especially if Romney gets the nomination.

If that happens, every last one of the deep thinkers around here who insist they’ll vote third-party or write-in rather than vote for Willard will be to blame when the SCOTUS tips the other way sometime during Kenyan Marxist’s second term.


5 posted on 03/21/2012 1:48:05 PM PDT by newgeezer (It is [the people's] right and duty to be at all times armed. --Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Mechanicos

Thank God! This couple was so persecuted!


6 posted on 03/21/2012 1:49:54 PM PDT by Lauren BaRecall (I declare for Santorum.)
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To: Mechanicos

And this was a 9-0 ruling I believe. As my grandkids are fond of saying, “you know you suck when ...” lol

Santorum 2012


7 posted on 03/21/2012 1:50:36 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: Mechanicos

Yes, but only a step it seems. They have the right to spend their money and go to court. How marvelous of the SCOTUS to affirm this......!

it would be nice if any further judgements against the EPA would have to come straight out of the pockets of those individuals who issued these restrictions. I supposed that would be pure fantasy though.

Primarily, I want to know why this couple was targeted.


8 posted on 03/21/2012 1:53:40 PM PDT by prairiebreeze
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To: RIghtwardHo

The family doesn’t immediately get their land usage rights, only the right to an EPA hearing.
At least the liberals on the court realized that people have to have a hearing, not be told to comply with the order if they want a hearing at all.


9 posted on 03/21/2012 1:55:08 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: newgeezer

Yeah.... I’m just SURE Mittens will nominate another Conservative Justice like Scalia..... /s


10 posted on 03/21/2012 1:58:12 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: mgpilot
Career bureaucrats are leftist in all areas of government and need to be flushed by a combination of Republican presidents and congress. It will be difficult and take a long time but it is a necessary part of fixing government.

It is VERY important that we note this as FACT! The reason bureaucrats are "leftists" is because their very survival, their entire careers, rely on their positions/offices having an ongoing purpose and more power to protect their offices/positions.

Every office and position in ANY government, other than those specifically listed in their Constitution should be reviewed every two to three years - as a MINIMUM! At the end of each period, the effectiveness, usefulness and cost of each job/position should be evaluated and either re-authorized or simply SHUT DOWN!!!
11 posted on 03/21/2012 1:58:50 PM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: newgeezer
every last one of the deep thinkers around here who insist they’ll vote third-party or write-in rather than vote for Willard will be to blame when the SCOTUS tips the other way sometime during Kenyan Marxist’s second term.

So very true. I hope these geniuses here at FR have an epiphany before November.

When SCOTUS tips, it's all over.

12 posted on 03/21/2012 1:58:59 PM PDT by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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"This was a 9-0 ruling...."

Reading the linked article, you just KNOW that Ruth Buzzi Baader-Meinhof Ginsburg is going to go totalitarian with her next vote on this issue.

Maybe others, also.

This couple is not yet safe.

Leni

13 posted on 03/21/2012 2:00:04 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: Mechanicos

Good news.


14 posted on 03/21/2012 2:02:00 PM PDT by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: newgeezer

I guess when Romney appoints judges/bureaucrats every bit as liberal, just like he did in MA, you’ll ‘feel’ better because he’s GOP huh?


15 posted on 03/21/2012 2:04:58 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: mgpilot

Government bow wows are almost impossible to fire.
Entire agencies, however, can be closed. It’s a rare event, but it has happened.


16 posted on 03/21/2012 2:13:28 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Beware the Sweater Vest)
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To: Norm Lenhart; KoRn
I guess when Romney appoints judges/bureaucrats every bit as liberal, just like he did in MA, you’ll ‘feel’ better because he’s GOP huh?

Oh, sure, because we KNOW there's at least SOME chance Barry O'Marxist will appoint someone to the right of Justice Kennedy, huh?

17 posted on 03/21/2012 2:13:44 PM PDT by newgeezer (It is [the people's] right and duty to be at all times armed. --Thomas Jefferson)
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To: newgeezer

Show me the conservatives Romney is on record appointing, ‘deep thinker’. Now when that effort turns up nothing, then explain what you base your confidence in Romney on if not his HISTORY.


18 posted on 03/21/2012 2:18:37 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: prairiebreeze
We went up against these Regulator folks 4 times. One of them even made the paper.

Case 1: They claimed a farmers ditch was a wetland. They lost.

Case 2: A house had burnt down which was on a creek. They said no way we could "re-build" there. We went after them on "loss of value"...and we won.

Case 3: A elderly gentleman wanted to build on old family land that originally had a house and old orchard. We were ab;e to find the foundation AND photos of what was once an historic house. We won.

Case 4: Made the newspapers. There was a house on a hill with a patio and it was beginning to sluff off...and the patio was endangered. The sluffing was due to e NEW MEANDER cutting into the bank. Little baby fish were living in the meander. They would not let us get back to the natural shore....which was shown on old State quads and the original subdivision.

It was a tremendous expense but we managed to pin the bank back....although we did lose the patio. All for some damn little fish which are over that creek.

19 posted on 03/21/2012 2:21:38 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Mechanicos

Unanimous decision, too.


20 posted on 03/21/2012 2:22:55 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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