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· 10/31/2000

Amoco Oil Co. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency

Citations

  • 231 F.3d 694
  • 2000 Colo. J. C.A.R. 5987
  • 31 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20236
  • 51 ERC (BNA) 1786
  • 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 27095

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “[G]ranting vacatur to a party who both causes mootness and pursues dismissal based on mootness serves only the interests of that party.”
  • evaluating movant’s actions to determine whether it was entitled to “equitable remedy” of vacatur under Rule 60(b)
  • “[G]ranting vacatur to a party who both causes mootness and pursues dismissal based on mootness serves only the interests of that party.”
  • declining to find exceptional circumstances based on a speculative threat of future harm
  • “granting vacatur to a party who both causes mootness and pursues dismissal based on mootness serves only the interests of that party” and “amounts to a de facto reversal of an abandoned claim”
  • “We have ... recognized that granting vacatur to a party who both causes mootness and pursues dismissal based on mootness serves only the interests of that party.”

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Judges: Tacha, McWilliams, Murphy

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