United States Fifth Circuit

Intermittent streams which only infrequently contain running water are not "navigable waters" in for puroses of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 33 USC 2701-2720.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/25/2001
• Published 04/25/2001

Judges

• GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:, Before GARWOOD, HIGGINBOTHAM and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James H. Wood (argued), Channy Ferris Wood, The Wood Law Firm, Amarillo, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Anne R. Traum, Las Vegas, NV, Joan M. Pepin, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, for United States of America, Amicus Curiae., Thomas H. Edwards, Austin, TX, for The State of Texas, Amicus Curiae., Joseph D. Lonardo, John W. Wilmer, Jr., Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, Washington, DC, for Independent Petroleum Ass'n of America, Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Ass'n, Texas Oil and Gas Ass'n and North Texas Oil & Gas Ass'n, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kelli Michelle Hinson (argued), Kenneth Edwin Carroll, Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, Dallas, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.