Legal Opinion
Sierra Club v. John Hankinson
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 2, 2002No. 01-14587PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
The order we have before us in this appeal is based upon either an interpretation of a consent decree or a modification of the decree. Which one of the two the order is determines whether we have jurisdiction to review it. If the order is a modification of the decree, instead of merely an interpretation, we have appellate jurisdiction and the issue we must then decide is whether the district court abused its discretion by modifying the decree- as it did.
The consent decree itself resulted from a lawsuit brought by Sierra Club, along with a collection of state and local…
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