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· 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

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Judges: Tatel, Brown, Griffith

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