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Joe Robertson’s Clean Water Act case draws friends at Supreme Court

December 13, 2018 | By TONY FRANCOIS

This week six friend of the court briefs were filed asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Joe Robertson’s Clean Water Act case. Robertson, a 77-year-old Navy veteran in the small town of Basin, Montana, was unjustly convicted of Clean Water Act violations for digging firefighting ponds to protect his property. The prosecution turned on ̷ ...

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President Trump tells EPA to drain the swamp; EPA says ‘not so much’

December 13, 2018 | By TONY FRANCOIS

PLF client John Duarte joined the crew on Fox and Friends this morning to talk about being prosecuted by the Justice Department and the Department of the Army under the Clean Water Act, merely for plowing his company’s farm: The five-year ordeal culminated in Duarte Nursery settling with the government for $1.1 million to avoid … ...