United States Ninth Circuit

EPA Administrator's failure or refusal to find a Clean Water Act violation and failure to take subsequent enforcement actions are discretionary decisions and not subject to judicial review.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/09/2001
• Decided 10/02/2001
• Published 10/02/2001

Judges

• Before:  CANBY, HAWKINS and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Vera S. Kornylak,Arizona Center for Law in the Public interest, Tucson, Arizona, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ellen J. Durkee, Environment & Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.