In a case dealing with the scope of the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped short of a definitive ruling and sent the matter back to a lower court to decide the merits of the case.
In an 8-0 decision issued on Nov. 27 in Weyerhaeuser v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the high court voided an earlier appeals court ruling that favored the federal agency and remanded the matter to that appeals court for further action.