( January 26, 2026, 2:48 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court ordered a response from the United States to a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by a Connecticut farmland owner asking whether a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel was correct in upholding a lower court’s ruling finding him liable for the remediation of his property after he violated the Clean Water Act (CWA) by filling in protected wetlands without a permit....