United States v. The Municipal Authority Of Union Township

How courts have described this case

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• holding that it is appropriate to consider parent’s financial condition in assessing a penalty under the Clean Water Act
• analyzing “economic benefit” penalty provision set forth in CWA in terms of profits gained, rather than expenses avoided, from noncompliance due to unique circumstances
• Subsidiary retained no revenues, so parent’s financial resources were highly relevant to ability to pay.
• “Because of the difficulty of determining the appropriate penalty under the CWA, the court will accord the district court’s award of a penalty wide discretion, even though it represents an approximation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).