Public Interest Research Group v. Yates Industries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that there is a “heavy burden to establish faulty analysis”
• reporting and monitoring violations do not “produce the kind of direct environmental impact” that is the primary target of the Act
• permit holder may avoid liability at summary judgment if data in laboratory report presents direct evidence of inaccuracies
• “[S]ince the members are nonparties, they need not be familiar with the specific facts of the case.”
• defendant’s submission of cover letters originally submitted to government with DMRs in which defendant stated that it “believed” the discharge violations were due to testing errors too speculative to defeat plaintiffs summary judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).