United States v. Riverside Bayview

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United States v. Riverside Bayview
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 16, 1985 Decided December 4, 1985
Full case name	United States v. Riverside Bayview Homes Inc.
Docket no.	84-701
Citations	474 U.S. 121 (more) 106 S. Ct. 455; 88 L. Ed. 2d 419; 1985 U.S. LEXIS 145
Case history
Prior	729 F.2d 391 (6th Cir. 1984); cert. granted, 469 U.S. 1206 (1985).
Holding
The District Court's findings are not clearly erroneous, and plainly bring respondent's property within the category of wetlands, as the language, policies, and history of the Clean Water Act compel a finding that the Corps has acted reasonably in interpreting the Act to require permits for the discharge of material into wetlands adjacent to other "waters of the United States."
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinion
Majority	White, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
Clean Water Act

United States v. Riverside Bayview, 474 U.S. 121 (1985), was a United States Supreme Court case challenging the scope of federal regulatory powers over waterways as pertaining to the definition of "waters of the United States" as written in the Clean Water Act of 1972. The Court ruled unanimously that the government does have the power to control intrastate wetlands as waters of the United States.^[1] This ruling was effectively revised in Rapanos v. United States (2006),^[2] in which the Court adopted a very narrow interpretation of "navigable waters."