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Environmental

Jul. 19, 2006

Court Dives Into Water Act and Comes Up Muddy

Forum Column - We all live in Justice Anthony Kennedy's world now, at least those of us who practice environmental law.

Forum Column

By Roderick E. Walston



We all live in Justice Anthony Kennedy's world now, at least those of us who practice environmental law. That is the lesson of the Supreme Court's recent decision defining the Army Corps of Engineers' authority to regulate wetlands. Rapanos v. United States; Carabell v. United States, 126 U.S. 2208 (2006). This is one of the court's most important environmental decisions in recent years, and the...

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