• Sierra Club v. Pruitt

    Publication Date: 2017-08-29
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-08-28
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Susan Illston, District Judge, Presiding Before: J. Clifford Wallace, M. Margaret McKeown, and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Zachary M. Fabish (argued), Sierra Club Environmental Law Program, Washington, D.C.; Paul R. Cort, Earthjustice, San Francisco, California; Nicholas Morales and David S. Baron, Earthjustice, Washington, D.C.; for Plaintiffs-Appellees Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council.
    for defendant: J. David Gunter II (argued) and Martha C. Mann, Attorneys; John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General; Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Michael Thrift, Office of General Counsel, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.; for Defendant-Appellee.

    Case Number: No. 15-15894

    States' objections to consent decree unavailing (McKeown, J.)