Commissioner v. National Land & Construction Co.

How courts have described this case

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• finding adoption of particular language in Clean Water Act after International Minis to be of some import in construing that language
• finding adoption of particular language in Clean Water Act after International Min'ls to be of some import in construing that language
• ordering a new trial because “the instructions did not adequately impose . . . the burden of proving knowledge”
• “[T]he instructions did not adequately impose ... the burden of proving knowledge .... For this reason, a new trial is required.”
• discharge of fill dirt into wetlands in violation of Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. §1319 [c][2] [A] [1994], criminally punishing “anyone who knotoingly violates section 1311”
• “[W]e cannot conclude that Congress intended to require the defendant to know that his conduct was illegal when it stated that ‘Any person who knowingly violates [provisions of the Clean Water Act] ... shall be punished.’ ”

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