Supreme Court Takes “Most Unlikely Case Ever”

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from a 70-year old Alaskan moose hunter who wants to be able to track and shoot game from his hovercraft on the Yukon River. In 2007, John Sturgeon was stopped by the National Park Service from hunting from his hovercraft. He was told that the vehicle was not allowed on parks and preserves. Sturgeon sued the Park Service and Interior Department officials in 2011, and thus far the courts have sided with the government. That the Supreme Court has decided to take up Sturgeon’s case makes it the “most unlikely case ever,” according to Harvard environmental law professor Richard Lazarus.