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Supreme Court Deals a Setback to the Endangered Dusty Gopher From. “The Supreme Court delivered a unanimous win to property owners contesting government designation of their land as a critical habitat for endangered species, and dealt a setback to the shy and homely dusky gopher frog. The court remanded the case, saying a lower court had been too deferential to the government’s designation of more than 1,500 acres of Louisiana land as a potential future home for the frog, which is known to live only in parts of a national forest in neighboring Mississippi.” [Washington Post, 12/16/18 (=)]