On Mar 22, 4:34*pm, "Robert Green" wrote:
"Oren" wrote in message

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On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:11:41 -0500, Hell Toupee
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.

Right. Now people are no longer at the mercy of the EPA. They can
challenge in court; instead of having the EPA have the final word.

If you've ever been involved in a lawsuit with a Federal agency, you might
reconsider the words "no longer at the mercy." *Maybe "not completely SOL,
but still pretty close" applies. *The EPA has a virtually endless legal and
investigatory staff. *They can, in legal parlance, "turn on the taps" so
that the legal fees a litigant faces might in many cases outweigh the cost
of the property in question. *They can paper a citizen to death with motions
and look into all the deep, dark corners of their lives. *SCOTUS just closed
a loophole, and not very tightly. *A private citizen facing the array of
resources the Feds can bring to bear in various legal actions is still in a
very, very shi++ty place.

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Bobby G.

But at least now they _can_ have their day in court, before it was "I
sadd it ws wet" that ends it.

Harry K