Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co.

Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 30, 2016 Decided May 31, 2016
Full case name	United States Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co., Inc., et al.
Docket no.	15–290
Citations	578 U.S. ___ (more) 136 S. Ct. 1807; 195 L. Ed. 2d 77
Argument	Oral argument
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Case history
Prior	Motion to dismiss granted, 963 F. Supp. 2d 868 (D. Minn. 2013); reversed, 782 F.3d 994 (8th Cir. 2015); cert. granted, 136 S. Ct. 615 (2015).
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Roberts, joined by Kennedy, Thomas, Breyer, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan
Concurrence	Kennedy, joined by Thomas, Alito
Concurrence	Kagan
Concurrence	Ginsburg (in part)
Laws applied
Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 704

Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co., 578 U.S. ___ (2016), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a Clean Water Act jurisdictional determination issued by the United States Army Corps of Engineers is reviewable under the Administrative Procedure Act because jurisdictional determinations constitute "final agency action".^[1] For a federal agency decision or action to be reviewable in court under the Administrative Procedures Act, it must be a “final” agency action, meaning that there are no further steps that can be taken before it has an impact on the legal rights or obligations of any affected parties.