Legal Opinion
Hoffman Homes, Incorporated, Formerly Known as Hoffman Group v. Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 19, 1993No. 90-3810PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge.
A tremendous amount of effort has gone into trying to determine whether a small wetland near Chicago may be regulated under the Clean Water Act.1 After having issued, then vacated, one opinion on this subject, we hope now to resolve this difficult question.
I. BACKGROUND
On March 26, 1986, an employee of the Army Corps of Engineers was driving through the Village of Hoffman Estates, Illinois. The employee happened to see that work had begun in a former soybean field on a new subdivision called “Victoria Crossings.” The subdivision would occupy a…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Leovy v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- HOMEMAKERS NORTH SHORE, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1987
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