In his lawsuit, Swain asks the court to rein in the agency's power grab based on the Supreme Court's ruling in Sackett v. EPA.
West Virginia business argues the Clean Water Act's citizen suit provision violates the separation of powers by giving executive power to unelected and unaccountable private actors.
Two fishermen, Vermonter Bob Conrad and New Yorker Frank Green, refuse to let that abuse of power go unchallenged.
When a law wrongly puts government power into private hands, everyone loses—until someone is willing to stand up to that abuse in court.
On April 24, 2026, Pacific Legal Foundation filed two petitions with FWS to reestablish the abandoned protections for fishermen’s rights.
But when the State adopted an executive order banning hydraulic fracking, the Woodwards abruptly lost the ability to use their own property.
Fifth-generation lobsterman Frank Thompson has lived on the waters around Vinalhaven for over 60 years. He’s been working on lobster boats for 55.
When government agencies correctly relinquish powers that they should never have exercised, the courts should not order them to take those powers back up.
California ban on new oil drilling strips private property of all economic use, requiring just compensation.