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For many years, PLF has served as advocate for ordinary Americans facing byzantine regulation of their land by the EPA's water bureaucrats. In 2006 our client John Rapanos won his case at the Supreme Court, establishing that EPA's regulations defining "navigable waters" were illegal. But rather than follow Justice Scalia's plurality opinion narr ...

Today the Ninth Circuit is hearing oral argument in U.S. v. Robertson. Joseph Robertson is presently incarcerated in federal prison in Colorado, serving an 18 month sentence for building two ponds on land owned by the Forest Service in Montana. He is 78 years old. One of the counts for which Mr. Robertson was imprisoned by the federal government wa ...