Legal Opinion
United States v. Hagerman
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 5, 2008No. 07-3874, 07-3875PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The defendants, Wabash Environmental Technologies, LLC, and its president, Hagerman, were convicted of making false statements in violation of the Clean Water Act, and they appeal. We affirm the judgments in an unpublished order issued today, and limit this opinion to a threshold issue that happens to be the single point of novelty in the appeals.
In previous appeals by these parties in a related civil case, we ruled that a limited liability company (which Wabash is), like a corporation, cannot litigate in a federal court unless it is represented by a lawyer. United…
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