WASHINGTON – (RealEstateRama) — Tom Reed issued the following statement in the wake of the recent unanimous Supreme Court ruling in Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co. Inc. The ruling allows private property owners to appeal how their land is classified by the Corps, and therefore the types of regulations land is subject to, in Federal court.
“The Fifth Amendment Right to private property is critical to a free society. We care about protecting private property owners from the overreach of big government and stopping the federal government from riding roughshod over the rights of ordinary citizens. Allowing land owners to appeal the decisions of nameless Washington bureaucrats is the right thing to do, and we applaud the ruling.”
Reed is Chairman of the Congressional Private Property Rights Caucus.
