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· 2/4/2010

Concerned Citizens Around Murphy v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc.

Citations

  • 686 F. Supp. 2d 663
  • 40 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20038
  • 71 ERC (BNA) 1901
  • 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10311
  • 2010 WL 487405

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that “[Corporate formalities and formal membership structure are not constitutional requirements for associational standing”
  • explaining that past violations, together with violations that continued after the filing of the complaint, sufficiently establish that “unless some action is taken to prevent the illegal conduct, there is a real threat that such violations will continue to occur.”
  • granting summary judgment with respect to liability for a CAA violation based only on the defendant’s self-reported violations, where there were nineteen self-reported violations over an almost five-year period
  • granting summary judgment based on the defendant’s self-reports of emission violations
  • CAA plaintiffs’ recreational and aesthetic injuries were fairly traceable to emissions from oil refinery located blocks away
  • relying on organization's formal and determinate membership structure

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Judges: Sarah S. Vance

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