The Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a unanimous win to property owners contesting government designation of their land as a critical habitat for endangered species, and dealt a setback to the shy and homely dusky gopher frog.
The court remanded the case, saying a lower court had been too deferential to the government’s designation of more than 1,500 acres of Louisiana land as a potential future home for the frog, which is known to live only in parts of a national forest in neighboring Mississippi.
Read further media coverage here:
Supreme Court deals a setback to the endangered dusky gopher frog, by Robert Barnes, The Washington Post, Nov. 27, 2018.
Dusky gopher frog suffers setback at Supreme Court, by Ariane de Vogue, CNN.com, Nov. 27, 2018.
The Dusky Gopher Frog Loses a Round in the Supreme Court, by Adam Liptak, The New York Times, Nov. 27, 2018.
Supreme Court kicks St. Tammany dusky gopher frog case back to lower court, Nola.com, Nov. 27, 2018.
