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Author:  Damien M. Schiff Yesterday PLF scored a major victory in Great Northwest, Inc. v. United States Army Corps of Engineers, a case concerning a challenge to the Corps' regulatory authority over wetlands.  Great Northwest is a gravel mining operation in Fairbanks, Alaska.  Its property's wetlands are located about a third of a mile from ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff A few weeks ago I reported on PLF's victory in Great Northwest, Inc. v. United States Army Corps of Engineers, in the District of Alaska.  The case concerned the Corps' Clean Water Act regulatory exception for wetlands adjacent to other, jurisdictional wetlands.  The court ruled in our favor, hold ...

Earlier this week, we filed our opening brief on appeal in Universal Welding & Fabrication, Inc. v. United States Army Corps of Engineers.  Our client, Universal Welding, is a family-owned steel and pipe fabrication business, based in North Pole, Alaska.  The company wants to expand its operations to a neighboring parcel.  This parcel has a ...

Today, we filed our reply brief on appeal in Universal Welding, Inc. v. United States Army Corps of Engineers. The case concerns the scope of a rarely addressed (and even more rarely applied) regulatory exception to the Corps' wetland jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act. According to the Corps' long-standing rule, the agency generally will asse ...

This morning, the Ninth Circuit upheld the Army Corps of Engineers' Clean Water Act jurisdiction over the Fairbanks, Alaska, property of our client, Universal Welding. The case, Universal Welding & Fabrication Co. v. United States Army Corps of Engineers, addressed a rarely invoked exception to the agency's Clean Water Act jurisdiction over we ...

Can the executive branch be the judicial branch? When is "just compensation" unjust? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss? Seattle residents challenge the City's arbitrary and unconstitutional tax on achievement The twilight of California's tax-revolt? PLF asks the Supreme Court to bet on the Constitution Argument held to release ...