Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Gwaltney of Smithfield, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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

• “The entire structure of the Clean Water Act and regulations involves identifying specific pollutants and setting a permit limit for each pollutant of concern.”
• “[T]he penalty factor keeps the controversy alive . . . even though defendant has come into compliance and . . . civil penalties [are] assessed for past acts of pollution.”
• “[T]he penalty factor keeps the controversy alive . . . even though the defendant has come into compliance and . . . civil penalties [are] assessed for past acts of pollution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).