United States Ninth Circuit

The Clean Water Act allows the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers to regulate "deep ripping" on protected wetlands.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/09/2001
• Decided 08/15/2001
• Published 08/15/2001

Judges

• MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:, Before:  CANBY, HAWKINS, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Arthur F. Coon (argued) and Edmund L. Regalia (argued), Miller, Starr & Regalia, Walnut Creek, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sylvia Quast (argued), U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.