Property Owner Wins Louisiana Wetlands Dispute Under Sackett

A 2,000-acre property in Louisiana doesn’t contain federally regulated wetlands, the Fifth Circuit said in a reclassification of the property following a US Supreme Court decision that narrowed the definition of federal waters.

“Sackett has cleared the air as concernss this case both legally and factually,” a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said Monday.

Sackett v. EPA, a landmark Supreme Court decision in May that stripped the federal government’s role in protecting many wetlands nationwide, backed landowners who sought to build a house near an Idaho lake, in a spot the ...