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· 12/12/2003

Sierra Club v. City of Little Rock

Citations

  • 351 F.3d 840
  • 57 ERC (BNA) 1714
  • 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 25046
  • 2003 WL 22928446

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that an applicant for attorney fees was not a “prevailing party,” because the district court only found that the defendant “technically violated” its NPDES permit and did not afford the applicant any relief or affect the defendant’s behavior toward the applicant in any way
  • applying Buckhannon to Clean Water Act’s attorney-fee provision, 33 U.S.C. § 1365(d
  • applying Buckhannon to Clean Water Act’s attorney-fee provision, 33 U.S.C. § 1365(d)
  • Sierra Club was not a prevailing or substantially prevailing party under the CWA because \the judgment did not change the relationship between Sierra Club and the City\

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Judges: Melloy, Hansen, Smith

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