Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (2012)

Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 9, 2012 Decided March 21, 2012
Full case name	Chantell Sackett, et vir v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al.
Docket no.	10-1062
Citations	566 U.S. 120 (more) 132 S. Ct. 1367; 182 L. Ed. 2d 367; 2012 U.S. LEXIS 2320
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	Case dismissed, 2008 WL 3286801 (D. Idaho Aug. 7, 2008); affirmed, 622 F.3d 1139 (9th Cir. 2010); cert. granted, 564 U.S. 1052 (2011).
Subsequent	Remanded to District court, 677 F.3d 1000 (9th. Cir. 2012)
Holding
Orders under the Clean Water Act are subject to the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires an appeals process for any ruling by a federal agency.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Scalia, joined by unanimous
Concurrence	Ginsburg
Concurrence	Alito
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. V, Clean Water Act, Administrative Procedure Act

Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, 566 U.S. 120 (2012), also known as Sackett I (to distinguish it from the 2023 case), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that orders issued by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Water Act are subject to the Administrative Procedure Act.^[1] The Court ruled that because the Environmental Protection Agency's orders constitute "final agency action" under the Administrative Procedure Act, federal courts may hear appeals from its orders.