Markle Interests, P&F Lumber Co. 2000, and PF Monroe Properties, Respondents
Mark Miller, Counsel of Record
Markle Interests, P&F Lumber Co. 2000 and PF Monroe Properties are all private property-owners in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, that was affected by the Fish and Wildlife’s dusky gopher frog critical habitat designation. Mark Miller is a senior attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, where he specializes in property rights and the First Amendment law. The following is excerpted from the Brief for Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on April 30, 2018. The Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) stretched interpretation of “habitat,” as susceptible of including land on which the frog cannot currently survive, land on which…