Legal Opinion
El Comité Para El Bienestar De Earlimart v. Warmerdam
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 19, 2008No. 06-16000, 06-16131Published
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:
This case involves a challenge under § 304 of the Clean Air Act (“CAA”), see 42 U.S.C. § 7604(a), known as the citizen suit provision. A coalition of community organizations (“El Comité”) brought suit against California state officials (“California”) responsible for designing and implementing a state air quality plan. The complicated approval process for the State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) required much back-and-forth between California and the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”). El Comité takes issue with both the process by which California obtained EPA…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Christensen v. Harris CountySupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Wyoming Outdoor Council v. United States Forest ServiceCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1999
- Sierra Club v. EPACourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2004
- Edward M. Ober Robin D. Silver v. United States Environmental Protection AgencyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1996
- El Comite Para el Bienestar de Earlimart v. HellikerDistrict Court, E.D. California · 2006