Richard G Leland

April 27, 2018 | New York Law Journal

When it comes to legal definitions, only a few have been as controversial for the real estate sector as what constitutes “the waters of the United States.”

By Richard G. Leland

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April 15, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Richard G. Leland writes: In 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated regulations promulgated by the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers defining the jurisdictional reach of their permitting authority under the Clean Water Act, finding that the definition of "waters of the United States" exceeded the scope of the language in the act. Since then, the EPA, the Army Corps, Congress and the courts have wrangled over the promulgation of a new regulatory definition.

By Richard G. Leland

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