· 4/25/2006
Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency
Citations
- 446 F.3d 140
- 371 U.S. App. D.C. 1
- 53 A.L.R. Fed. 2d 577
- 36 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20077
- 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 10264
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- stating that \[t]he district court retains some remedial discretion\ to stay an order of vacatur
- stating that “[t]he district court retains some remedial discretion” to stay an order of vacatur
- “Nothing in this language even hints at the possibility that EPA can approve total maximum ‘seasonal’ or ‘annual’ loads.”
- noting that “the parties may move to stay” for practical reasons
- finding Congress’s purposeful use of “daily” to modify “total maximum loads” unambiguously foreclosed a measure of time other than daily
- remanding to district court with instruction to vacate “daily load” limits on effluent discharges as inconsistent with statutory language
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Tatel, Brown, Griffith
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