Tennessee Riverkeeper v. City of Luttrell, Tennessee
Tennessee town stands up to Congress’ unconstitutional delegation of executive power
Luttrell isn’t giving in. Rather than waste its residents’ money lining a private group’s pockets, the City is challenging the law that enabled Tennessee Riverkeeper to sue anyone with the government’s power. Represented at no cost by Pacific Legal Foundation, the City of Luttrell is challenging Congress’ unconstitutional delegation of executive power under the Clean Water Act.
Chinook Landing, LLC v. United States
Challenging government land grabs in the Pacific Northwest
John Lund sued to protect his property and to ensure that the government could not use its claim of an “implied easement” to take other homeowners’ property the way it tried to take his.
In re: Teancum Properties
Utah property owners challenge Army Corps’ wetlands overreach after Supreme Court ruling
Teancum Properties filed an administrative appeal challenging the Corps’ jurisdictional determination. The case argues that federal agencies cannot ignore Supreme Court precedent that protects property owners from regulatory overreach.
In re: Linck
Feds’ bureaucratic tricks flout Supreme Court’s limits on Clean Water Act authority
The Lincks are fighting back to restore their right to make productive use of their own land, and to ensure federal agencies finally follow the Supreme Court’s clear ruling in Sackett.
United States v. Sunseri
One man’s record-setting run sparked a constitutional battle over the separation of powers
Only Congress can decide what behavior is and isn’t criminally prohibited, and it cannot delegate that authority away. If Congress wants to define behavior as criminal, it must do so itself, or at the very least, set clear limits that dictate how and why officials can do so.
Grill v. United States
California man sues government for denying his right to access his own property
Represented at no cost by Pacific Legal Foundation, James Grill is suing the federal government to defend the right of all property owners to access their own land.
Foster Farms v. EPA
Federal government continues to abuse Clean Water Act to micromanage property owners
Ron Foster is asking the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the district court’s failure to apply the correct legal standard mandated by Sackett II.
Iliamna Natives Limited, et al. v. EPA
Alaska Natives fight EPA roadblock to economic and social progress
Iliamna and Alaska Peninsula are fighting back to rein in the EPA’s overreach so they can promote Alaska Natives’ self-determination and socio-economic development while protecting their Native culture and traditions through agreements with the mine operators. Represented at no charge by Pacific Legal Foundation, they are challenging the EPA’s so-called veto authority as a violation of the Constitution’s separation of powers.
Green v. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Fishermen fight illegal fishing ban
In 2021, President Biden issued a presidential proclamation that banned commercial fishing across millions of acres in the fertile Georges Bank region of the North Atlantic Ocean, a devastating blow to New England’s iconic fishing industry. If the president can designate “ecosystems” and millions of acres of the ocean floor as “a national monument,” there is no meaningful limit on what the president can designate under the Antiquities Act. Nor is there any meaningful limit on how much “land” he can rope off from productive use.