Mining News: Court asks questions in Kensington case

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J. P. Tangen

For Mining News

Although it is somewhat unusual, the U.S. Supreme Court asked the parties and amici (friends of the court) in Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council (the Kensington case) to brief two supplemental questions concerning possible applications of the Clean Water Act to the Kensingto....