Kim McAbee v. City of Fort Payne

How courts have described this case

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

• finding an Alabama statute not comparable absent “public-participation . . . provisions” analogous to those in the CWA
• discussing how the 1987 amendments to the Clean Water Act “extended the bar on citizen suits, instructing that an administrative penalty action is enough to preclude a citizen suit”
• discussing the inability for the public to participate at all in Alabama
• “[T]he term ‘comparable’ means that the state law need only be sufficiently similar to the federal law, not identical.” (emphasis in original

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).