Source: Chris Bennett, AGWEB, 6/18/18


American landowners are about to discover how sacrosanct private property is—or isn’t. Grinding against the edges of government power, a benchmark legal battle is ready for the Supreme Court. The potentially historic case features the expanding scope of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and will either pile on tremendous muscle to federal agency jurisdiction or bolster individual property owner claims. In the pantheon of controversial ESA cases, a phantom frog arguably has jumped clear of the pack. What began with an endangered amphibian in Mississippi has morphed into a surreal legal tale involving a Louisiana landowner...

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