Landowner’s Flawed Reading Of Sackett Dooms Preliminary Injunction In CWA Row

(June 20, 2024, 12:50 PM EDT) -- RALEIGH, N.C. — A property owner is not entitled to a preliminary injunction that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers from enforcing a new amended rule that extends the protection of the Clean Water Act (CWA) to certain wetlands because the owner failed to show that the rule was at odds with the U.S. Supreme Court’s definition of protected wetlands in Sackett v. EPA, a North Carolina federal judge found in denying the owner’s motion for a preliminary injunction....