EPA to property owner: 'Your land is our land ' $ 40 million in fines pending over plan to build

Just imagine. You want to build a home, so you buy a $ 23,000 piece of land in a residential subdivision in your hometown and get started. The government then tells you to stop, threatens you with $ 40 million in fines and is not kidding. That 's the case now before the US Supreme Court, with briefs being filed today by the Pacific Legal Foundation on behalf of a Priest Lake, Idaho, family, Chantell and Mike Sackett. Attorney Damien Schiff, who will be arguing before the high court in the