Clean Water Act ruling [US SC]

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Clean Water Act ruling [US SC]

June 19, 2006 08:00:00 pm

Rapanos v. US & Carabell v. Army Corps of Engineers, Supreme Court of the United States, June 19, 2006 [holding that the Clean Water Act applies only to bodies of water that are "permanent, standing or continuously flowing bodies of water 'forming geographic features' that are described in ordinary parlance as 'streams,' 'oceans, rivers, [and] lakes.'"]. Read the Court's majority decision [text] per Justice Scalia, along with a concurrence in the judgment from Justice Kennedy, a concurrence from Chief Justice Roberts, a dissent from Justice Stevens, who was joined by Justices Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer and a second dissent from Justice Breyer. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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