( February 24, 2026, 12:50 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 23 granted an extension to the United States to file a response 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....