Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (598 U.S. 651)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided May 25, 2023 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 598 U.S. 651 · 143 S. Ct. 1322
- Decided
- May 25, 2023
- Term
- October Term 2022
- Vote
- 9–0
- Majority author
- Justice Alito
- Issue area
- Economic Activity
- Disposition
- Reversed and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
PRELIMINARY PRINT Volume 598 U. S. Part 2 Pages 651–728 OFFICIAL REPORTS OF THE SUPREME COURT May 25, 2023 Page Proof Pending Publication REBECCA A. WOMELDORF reporter of decisions NOTICE: This preliminary print is subject to formal revision before the bound volume is published. Users are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C. 20543, pio@supremecourt.gov, of any typographical or other formal errors. OCTOBER TERM, 2022 651 Syllabus SACKETT et ux. v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY et al. certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit No. 21–454. Argued October 3, 2022—Decided May 25, 2023 Petitioners Michael and Chantell Sackett purchased property near Priest Lake, Idaho, and began backflling the lot with dirt to prepare for build- ing a home. The Environmental Protection Agency informed the Sack- etts that their property contained wetlands and that their backflling violated the Clean Water Act, which prohibits discharging pollutants into “the waters of the United States.” 33 U. S. C. § 1362(7). The EPA ordered the Sacketts to restore the site, threatening penalties of over $40,000 per day. The EPA classifed the wetlands on the Sacketts' lot as “waters of the United States” because they were near a ditch that fed into a creek, which fed into Priest Lake, a navigable, intrastate lake. The…
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