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Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 25, 2023
Entity authorityQ110674333 ↗
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Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency may refer to either of two United States Supreme Court cases:

Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (2012) (alternatively called Sackett I), 570 U.S. 205 (2013), a case in which the Court ruled that orders issued by the EPA under the Clean Water Act are subject to the Administrative Procedure Act.

Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (2023) (alternatively called Sackett II), case 21-454, a case in which the Court limited the scope of the EPA's authority to regulate the waters of the United States.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.