United States Eleventh Circuit

After a consent decree set out a timetable for the EPA to establish water pollution standards for a Georgia waterway, the district court's imposition of a requirement, that the EPA develop an implementation plan for those standards, constituted an impermissible modification of the decree.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/02/2002
• Published 07/02/2002

Judges

• CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and CARNES and SILER , Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William Russell Phillips, GA Dept. of Law, Atlanta, GA, for Amicus Curiae Georgia Environmental Protection., Robert D. Mowrey, Alston & Bird, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Amicus Curiae Georgia Municipal Ass'n., Lee A. DeHihns, III, Alston & Bird, Atlanta, GA, for Amicus Curiae County Comm'rs of Georgia.


• For Appellees:
  
• John A. Bryson,Robert Oakley, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., App. Section, Greer Goldman, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants., Douglas P. Haines,Georgia CLPI, Kesler Thompson Roberts, Georgia Legal Watch, Athens, GA, Eric E. Huber, Earthjustice, Denver, CO, Donald D. Stack, Martin Arthur Shelton, Stack & Associates, PC, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.