Legal Opinion
Sierra Club v. Lujan
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 7, 1992No. 90-1183PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALDISERT, Senior Circuit Judge.
When this case was first before us, we were of the view that certain provisions of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251, et seq., waived sovereign immunity and permitted the assessment of civil penalties against the United States for past violations of the Act. Sierra Club v. Lujan, 931 F.2d 1421, 1429 (10th Cir.1991). Accordingly, we agreed with the district *313court’s interpretation of the Act and affirmed the order that was the subject of this interlocutory appeal. Id.
The Supreme Court subsequently granted the federal appellants’, petition for a writ of…
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