Black Warrior Riverkeeper, Inc. v. Black Warrior Minerals, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “statutory con- struction is a ‘holistic endeavor’” and courts must “fit, if possible, all parts into a harmonious whole” (citations omitted)
• explaining that section 1342(k)’s “absolute defense” applies “against citizen suits based on violations of sections 1311, 1312, 1316, 1317, and 1343”
• noting that citizen suits should not “nullify the statutory preference for govern- mental enforcement”
• “[A] court should . . . avoid interpreting a provi- sion in a way that would render other provisions of the statute su- perfluous.”
• “[A] court should . . . avoid interpreting a provision in a way that would render other provisions of the statute superfluous.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).