Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. County of Los Angeles

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that language is ambiguous “if reasonable people could find its terms susceptible to more than one interpretation”
• holding that an NPDES permit must include compliance monitoring measures
• holding that an NPDES permit must include compliance monitoring measures
• highlighting that the plain language of a NPDES permit authorizes citizens to enforce all permit conditions
• “[A] permittee violates the CWA when it .discharges pollutants in excess of the levels specified in the permit, or where the permittee otherwise violates the permit’s terms.”
• “County Defendants do not dispute 21 that they are discharging pollutants from the [ ] MS4 into these 22 rivers.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).