Podcast: Idaho Clean Water Act Dispute with Brandon Gilligan

What exactly makes up the “waters of the United States” as governed by the Clean Water Act? The U.S. Supreme Court considered and ruled on this question in the case of Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, according to Shook Associate Brandon Gilligan.

Gilligan and his Shook Orange County colleagues discussed the high court’s May 2023 ruling in Sackett for the fourth episode of the In That Case podcast. Gilligan said the case was about an Idaho couple who faced fines for filling in a lake on their own land when neighbors complained it was a protected wetland and notified the EPA.