SCOTUS Smacks Down EPA

[Weatherman2020]

8-0 Won for Americans.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a victory to timber company Weyerhaeuser Co and other landowners seeking to limit the federal government’s power to designate private land as protected habitat for endangered species in a property rights case involving a warty amphibian called the dusky gopher frog.

The court, in a 8-0 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, threw out a 2016 ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that had favored the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, finding the lower court gave the government too much leeway. The justices sent the case back to the 5th Circuit lower to reconsider.

Supreme Court Limits Federal Power to Designate Private Land as Protected Habitat

 

[busybee01]

Not entirely true. This was a compromise opinion.

"By sending the case back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit for further review, Roberts likely mustered the unanimous verdict. During oral argument on the first day of the court's new term in October, it had appeared all four liberal justices were on the side of the frogs. Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh had not yet been confirmed, so he did not participate in the decision."

Supreme Court finds unity in decision against the endandered dusky gopher frog

I am on the frogs' side as well. There is plenty of land in this country that can be used for wood.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Not entirely true. This was a compromise opinion.

"By sending the case back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit for further review, Roberts likely mustered the unanimous verdict. During oral argument on the first day of the court's new term in October, it had appeared all four liberal justices were on the side of the frogs. Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh had not yet been confirmed, so he did not participate in the decision."

Supreme Court finds unity in decision against the endandered dusky gopher frog

I am on the frogs' side as well. There is plenty of land in this country that can be used for wood.

I am on the frogs' side as well. There is plenty of land in this country that can be used for wood.

Sounds good.
Now how are we going to raise the money to buy the needed land from the timber company?

 

[JLW]

Apparently Weatherman must be lost in a fog again. The case he cites has nothing whatsoever to do with the EPA.