City of Newburgh v. SARNA

How courts have described this case

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• limiting plaintiffs’ remedies to injunctive relief where government diligently prosecuted the exact violations complained of by plaintiffs
• declining to grant motion to dismiss in favor of individual defendant on ground that he could not be held personally liable for civil violations of federal Clean Water Act
• “District courts in this Circuit . . . have consistently treated the CWA’s notice requirement as a question of subject-matter jurisdiction.”
• past record of pollution can afford basis to project future likelihood of pollution
• \The few courts ... that have expressly considered the question of whether the responsible corporate officer doctrine applies in a civil CWA case have concluded that it does.\
• “Plaintiff’s Notice Letter clearly established that the alleged pollutant is untreated stormwater runoff into Brown’s Pond. . . . Defendants . . . cannot credibly claim to have been confused about what they were accused of discharging in violation of their SPDES permit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).