Argument Preview: Can a Hovercraft Navigate the Shoals of Yukon-Charley?

Center for Progressive Reform 2018-10-31

Summary:

"Alaska is different." So said Chief Justice John Roberts when the U.S. Supreme Court last took up this case two years ago in Sturgeon v. Frost (Sturgeon I). When the court hears a second oral argument in Sturgeon v. Frost (Sturgeon II) next Monday, it will once again consider whether a form of transportation unknown to most people outside of Alaska - a hovercraft (an amphibious vehicle that glides over land and water) - can be used in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve conservation system unit (CSU). Why, you may ask, would the court bother (twice) with such an arcane and seemingly inconsequential set of issues involving a place that most of us will never even visit, much less on a hovercraft?

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http://www.progressivereform.org/CPRBlog.cfm?idBlog=8EF62272-CF83-6AC3-66839E2B419D955A

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Authors:

Sandra Zellmer

Date tagged:

10/31/2018, 10:34

Date published:

10/31/2018, 09:45