PLF Sues To Overturn Swampbuster In Wake Of High Court ‘Takings’ Decision

The free-market law firm Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) is challenging the Agriculture Department’s (USDA) decades-old Swampbuster wetlands conservation program as a violation of the Constitution’s takings clause, just days after the Supreme Court expanded its test for allowing a taking to cover statutory as well as administrative actions. If successful, the suit could further narrow federal protections for wetlands in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Sackett v. EPA , which narrowed the reach of the Clean Water...