National Review source article.

The humorous grammar lesson:

quote:

Writing in the manner of a schoolmarm whose patience has been sorely tried by a slow pupil, Roberts said: “According to the ordinary understanding of how adjectives work, ‘critical habitat’ must also be ‘habitat.’ Adjectives modify nouns — they pick out a subset of a category that possesses a certain quality.”

The case itself was about ~1500 acres of privately owned land in Louisiana that the Feds (Fish and Wildlife Services, USFWS) were trying to designate a Critical Habitat for some endangered Dusky Gopher Frogs that haven't lived there for a century. The designation, if it had been approved, would have robbed the owner of ~$34 Million in lost Timber income and other Development uses.

Any day that the government is smacked down, for the people, by the court is a good day.

I liked this!

It’s so sad that it takes SCOTUS to use common sense after this case climbed several judicial courts, and then, they only use it about half the time.

The Fish and Wildlife personnel who brought the suit should have to pay the land owners legal bills out of their own pockets.