Legal Opinion
Friends of the Earth v. Reilly
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 12, 1992No. 91-1109PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge HENDERSON.
KAREN LeCRAFT HENDERSON, Circuit Judge:
In this petition for review, we must decide whether Friends of the Earth (Friends), an environmental advocacy group, is entitled under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), 5 U.S.C. § 504(a)(1) & 28 U.S.C. § 2412(b), to recover attorneys fees incurred when it intervened in a proceeding brought by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under section 3006(e) of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), 42 U.S.C. § 6926(e), to withdraw North Carolina’s authorization to administer its…
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