Sweeden's Swamp: The Morass of Wetland Regulation

Abstract

On December 1, 1988, the Pyramid Development Companies asked the United States Supreme Court to decide a wetlands controversy that began when Pyramid's predecessor in title applied for a permit in February 1979.¹ The “Sweedens Swamp” case, as it became known in the media, illustrates some of the strange emanations of our overlapping systems of federal, state, and local wetlands regulation.