The Supreme Court kicks off a new term on Monday, and it’s a shame that Brett Kavanaugh won’t be seated in time to hear Weyerhaeuser v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which challenges the limits of judicial deference to regulatory interpretations of law. At issue is the government’s ability to wall off and revamp private land into safe havens for endangered species. In 2001 the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) designated the dusky gopher frog an endangered species, estimating that its population had dwindled to 100 in Mississippi’s...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 30, 2018 20:03 UTC