On 3/21/2012 2:01 PM, HeyBub wrote:
Justice Alito: "The position taken in this case by the Federal Government—a
position that the Court now squarely rejects—would have put the property
rights of ordinary Americans entirely at the mercy of Environmental
Protection Agency(EPA) employees."

You can now have a wading pool in your backyard without worrying over a
$75,000/day fine.

http://volokh.com/2012/03/21/unanimo...sackett-v-epa/

The SC ruled that property owners have the right to contest the EPA's
ruling that their property falls under the Clean Water Act. They now
get to have their day in court. That's all this ruling gave them.