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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 […] March 21st, 2012 | Tags: Clean Water Act (CWA), judicial review, Mike and Chantell Sackett, National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), Sackett v EPA | Category: Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Idaho, Property rights, SCOTUS | Comments are closed
EPA Abuse 3/2/2012 Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has introduced S. 2122, the Defense of Environment and Property Act of 2012, to reform federal water policy to protect land owners. According to FreedomWorks writer Julie Borowski: The bill would redefine “navigable waters” to explicitly clarify that waters must actually be navigable, protect the rights of states […] March 3rd, 2012 | Tags: "navigable waters", Defense of Environment and Property Act of 2012, Mike and Chantell Sackett, S. 2122, Sackett v EPA, Sen. Rand Paul | Category: 10th Amendment, Environmental Protection Agency, federal regulations, legislation, Property rights, Right to Privacy | Comments are closed
Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 1/18/2012 A month ago, I wrote about the Supreme Court’s decision to take a close look at the EPA and the lack of due process afforded to property owners who run afoul of arcane regulations, regarding wetlands in this specific case. Sackett v EPA pits an Idaho couple who wanted to build […] January 19th, 2012 | Tags: agency law, due process, Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Stephen Breyer, Sackett v EPA | Category: Audio, Environmental Protection Agency, federal regulations, Idaho, Property rights, SCOTUS | Comments are closed
For more and more Americans, law has been supplanted by “regulation”–a governing set of rules not legislated by representatives accountable to the people, but invented by an activist bureaucracy, much of which is well to the left of either political party. As the newspapers blandly reported in 2010, the bureaucrats weren’t terribly bothered […] January 10th, 2012 | Tags: Damien M. Schiff, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Samuel Alito, Mike and Chantell Sackett, Sackett v EPA | Category: Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, federal regulations, Idaho, Property rights, SCOTUS | Comments are closed
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