United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendants' convictions for roles in a Clean Water Act conspiracy and for substantive violations of the CWA are vacated where the trial court's definition of "navigable waters" in the jury charge was erroneous under Rapanos v. U.S. 126 S. Ct. 2208 (2006), and the government has not shown that the error was harmless.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/24/2007
• Published 10/24/2007

Judges

• HULL, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, HULL, Circuit Judge, and FORRESTER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joyce White Vance, Birmingham, AL, Todd S. Aagaard, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for U.S.


• For Appellees:
  
• David E. Roth, Jack W. Selden, Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, LLP, G. Douglas Jones, Watley, Drake & Kallas, LLP, Christopher James Williams, John Alan Truitt, Fournier J. Gale, III, Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Miguel A. Estrada, Daviid Debold, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, Washington, DC, Lawrence S. Lustberg, Kevin McNulty, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, Newark, NJ, Henry J. DePippo, Nixon Peabody, LLP, Rochester, NY, for Defendants.