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Ninth Circuit says no to judicial review of compliance orders

September 23, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Last Friday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency that a landowner does not have the right of immediate judicial review when he receives a compliance order from the EPA for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act (PLF represents the appellants, Michael and Cha ...

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A Sackett update

August 25, 2011 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Damien M. Schiff Last week I had the chance to visit again PLF's clients Mike and Chantell Sackett in Priest Lake, Idaho.  PLF represents the Sacketts in their now four-year struggle to build a family home for themselves near the Lake.  Their homebuilding has been stopped since 2007 because of an EPA compliance order … ...

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What the Priest Lake wetland case is REALLY actually about

October 18, 2011 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Anne Hayes Last week, an online discussion thread at the Spokane Spokesman Review had a link to a blog post from the Kootenai Environmental Alliance titled “What the Priest Lake Wetland Case is Actually About.” In it, the author, Terry Harris, attempted, theoretically, to clarify what our case, Sackett v. EPA, is all about.  ...

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And anyway . . . where is the environmental threat?

January 21, 2012 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

As pointed out in a previous post, one of the main arguments being put forward by the pro-EPA crowd in PLF’s case, Sackett v. EPA, is that Compliance Orders are necessary for the EPA to “promptly respond” to environmental harms, and that tying the EPA up in litigation would necessarily undermine EPA’s ability to save … ...

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Reason.tv interviews Mike & Chantell Sackett

February 28, 2012 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Reason.tv visited the Sacketts in Priest Lake, Idaho, and put together this great interview with them and with their attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation’s Damien Schiff. httpv://youtu.be/40iHXAOjJ3U … ...