Dusky gopher frog
By Adam Liptak | The New York Times
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that District of Columbia police were entitled to arrest late-night partygoers in a vacant house engaged in what Justice Clarence Thomas called, in announcing the decision from the bench, “utter Bacchanalia.”
The court also agreed to hear a case on the federal government’s efforts to protect an endangered animal, the dusky gopher frog.
The decision concerning the party, District of Columbia v. Wesby, No. 15-1485, included an unusually vivid and extended description of what Justice Thomas called “debauchery” in his majority opinion.
“This decision could have some real impact on Arizona landowners who currently struggle to make any use of their land which has some relationship to some designated species. We are watching this one closely”
~Jordan Rose, President and Founder of Rose Law Group
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