Thursday, January 26, 2012

Supreme Court poised to end homeowners’ nightmare story of alleged EPA abuse

By Frank York

An Idaho couple facing $37,500 per day in Environmental Protection Agency fines for building on what the agency says is a “wetland” had their day in court — the Supreme Court — on Jan. 9. And the tough questions leveled at the EPA’s attorney by nearly all the justices do not bode well for the federal government’s case.

Attorney Damien Schiff, who presented the oral arguments, told The Daily Caller that the justices showed clear “suspicion of the legal arguments that the EPA was making.”

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