Supreme Court to consider taking key CWA scope case

The Supreme Court will consider at its April 12 conference whether to take up a Montana man's petition to overturn his conviction for filling waters without a Clean Water Act (CWA) permit, a case that could provide the justices a vehicle to set a new standard on the water law's scope or strike down a notoriously vague provision that governs federal jurisdiction under the law. In Joseph David Robertson v. United States, Robertson argues that the foot-wide waterway in...