The case is Sackett v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Summary of case.
The EPA effectively seized control of the Sacketts’s property in northern Idaho and declared it to be a “wetlands.” The EPA and the Ninth Circuit stated that the Sacketts could not get direct court review of the EPA’s claim that their two-thirds of an acre parcel was “wetlands.” The EPA’s compliance order was detailed and intrusive and if not met the fines totaled up to $75,000 per day.
Pacific Legal Foundation took the case all the way to the Supreme Court where the Justices voted 9 to 0 in favor of the Sacketts. The decision makes it clear that EPA bureaucrats are answerable to the law and the courts just like the rest of the citizenry.
Justice Alito stated that “The position taken in this case by the Federal Government – a position that the Court now squarely rejects – would have put the property rights of ordinary Americans entirely at the mercy of Environmental Protection (EPA) employees.”
This is just one example of the intrusion of the government into our lives.
Freedom requires eternal vigilance.
Stay alert and be prepared to fight.
Thank you for all you do.
Edelweiss Geary
Legislative Issues Chair
California Federation of Republican Women – Northern Division
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