United States Second Circuit

Summary judgment against defendant city for violations of the Clean Water Act, imposing civil penalties, and awarding injunctive relief is affirmed as to the amount of the civil penalty imposed on defendant city.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/13/2006
• Published 06/13/2006

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge., Before WALKER, Chief Judge, OAKES and JACOBS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Karl S. Coplan, Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, Inc. (Kara E. Murphy, Legal Intern, on the brief), White Plains, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants., Hilary Meltzer, Assistant Corporation Counsel (Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, William S. Plache, on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendants-Third-Party-Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees., James M. Tierney, Assistant Attorney General (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, Michelle Aronowitz, Deputy Solicitor General, Peter H. Lehner, Chief, Environmental Protection Bureau, Gordon J. Johnson, Deputy Bureau Chief, Robert H. Easton, Assistant Solicitor General, on the brief), Albany, NY, for Third-Party-Defendants-Appellees.