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Suits Must Be Based on Continuing Violations
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1988.tb03015.x
Subject(s) - lawsuit , supreme court , clean water act , law , jurisdiction , original jurisdiction , political science , federal court , remand (court procedure) , business , ecology , water quality , biology
The U.S. Supreme Court vacated lower court rulings in a lawsuit over violations of permits issued under the Clean Water Act's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System. The Court ruled that the act did not confer federal jurisdiction over citizen suits for wholly past violations.