Community of Cambridge Environmental Health and Community Development Group v. City of Cambridge

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Consent Orders covered the same standard as citizen suit where use of the term “unauthorized discharges” in state action was broad enough to encompass citizen suit’s concern with “dry weather discharges”
• finding that an agency suit addressing all sewage overflows covered the same issues as a citizen suit alleging sewage overflows during dry weather, in violation of a NPDES permit provision specifically prohibiting “discharges during dry weather”
• ‘Most courts considering the diligence of a state or federal prosecution have exhibited substantial deference for the agency's process.’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).