United States Ninth Circuit

Environmental group has standing to sue timber company for Clean Water Act violations on behalf of its members, who use the allegedly polluted bodies of water for recreational purposes.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/08/2000
• Decided 10/30/2000
• Published 10/30/2000

Judges

• BERZON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  BOOCHEVER, TROTT and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sharon E. Duggan, San Francisco, California, and William Verick, Klamath Environmental Law Center, Eureka, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jared G. Carter, Scotia, California, and Michael D. Macomber and Frank Shaw Bacik, Ukiah, California, for the defendant-appellee.