Supreme Courtroom narrows scope of Clear Water Act : NPR
The U.S. Supreme Courtroom is seen on Could 16.
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The U.S. Supreme Courtroom is seen on Could 16.
Alex Brandon/AP
The U.S. Supreme Courtroom positioned new restrictions on the scope of the jurisdiction the Clear Water Act has over wetlands, ruling in favor of Idaho landowners who had challenged the regulation.
The court docket was unanimous to find that the land owned by the Idaho household was not topic to the Clear Water Act, however cut up 5-4 on the court docket’s new take a look at, which held that solely wetlands which have a steady floor connection to a physique of water are lined by the regulation.
Conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the court docket’s three liberals. He wrote the “courts new take a look at will go away some long-regulated adjoining wetlands now not lined by the Clear Water Act, with important repercussions for water high quality and flood management all through the US.”
In a second opinion, the court docket unanimously dominated for an octogenarian resident of Hennepin County, Minn., whose residence was seized by the county for a failure to pay taxes. The county offered the house for greater than the quantity she owed, and the court docket dominated that authorities violated her Fifth Modification rights as a result of she was not correctly compensated.