Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Texaco Refining And Marketing, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• addressing standing issue where defendant had come into compliance after the filing of the complaint
• “[We] hold that claims for damages are not moot because an intervening NPDES permit eliminates any reasonable possibility that [the defendant] will continue to violate specified parameters.”
• “[We] hold that claims for damages are not moot because an intervening NPDES permit eliminates any reasonable possibility that [the defendant] will continue to violate specified parameters.”
• “This mandatory language demonstrates that once a citizen plaintiff establishes an ongoing violation of a parameter at the time the complaint is filed, the court is obliged to assess penalties for all proven violations of that parameter.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).