A Big Win for Small Business
Alan Sexton
Green Mountain Scribes
3/21/2012
Washington, D.C. – Karen Harned, executive director of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Small Business Legal Center, today lauded the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Sackett v. EPA, to uphold landowner rights.
“Property rights are of enormous import to the hundreds of thousands of small-business owners who rely on their property for the success of their business,” said Karen Harned, executive director of NFIB’s small-business legal center. “In ruling today that individuals can challenge the EPA in court before being penalized or forced into compliance, the justices have assured landowners that their constitutional right to seek judicial review of government orders is inalienable. The extraordinary costs, administrative burdens and other punitive measures that can cripple small businesses, are no longer an inevitability for the men and women of Main Street. This is a tremendous victory for the small-business community, and NFIB is thrilled to have been a part of this case.”
NFIB filed an amicus in support of the petitioners…
