Washington Public Interest Research Group (\Washpirg\) v. Pendleton Woolen Mills

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to disregard the plain language of the Clean Water Act
• CWA “unambiguously bars suits only when the EPA has instituted an administrative penalty action”
• “[I]f Congress had intended to preclude citizen suits in the face of an administrative compliance order, it could easily have done so, as it has done in certain other environmental statutes”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).