United States Seventh Circuit

It is unreasonable for the Environmental Protection Agency to insist on judicial carte blanche to embark on drastic remedial action for a property access order before obtaining a rational basis for believing there is any danger to the environment to warrant such action.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/14/2001
• Decided 04/18/2001
• Published 04/18/2001

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, COFFEY, and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Todd S. Aagaard (argued), Department of Justice, Environmental & Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, Kurt Lindland, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Criminal Division, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellant, cross-appellee., Mark R. Ter Molen, Richard F. Bulger (argued), Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, IL, John Tarkowski, Wauconda, IL, for defendant-appellee, cross-appellant.