( March 24, 2026, 11:24 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on March 23 denied a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by an environmentalist and several nonprofit groups seeking review of an 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel’s ruling in which it affirmed dismissal of a federal lawsuit that sought to bar a Georgia hotel owner from filling an adjacent wetland parcel with outside materials because the Clean Water Act (CWA) does not allow challenges to the jurisdictional status of wetlands pursuant to Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency....