Supreme Court Weighs Call To Allow Review Of CWA 'Jurisdiction' Finding

February 24, 2016
A peat mining company is calling on the Supreme Court to allow challenges to regulators' findings that waters are subject to the Clean Water Act (CWA), arguing that any other approach would violate the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), while also urging the justices to revise their long-standing test for when to allow APA suits. The Hawkes Company in Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co., et al . , filed its first merits brief with the high court Feb. 24,...


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