United States Ninth Circuit

In an action under the Administrative Procedure Act seeking to compel action by the EPA on plaintiff's complaint that a city failed properly to utilize EPA funds to address environmental problems, dismissal of the action on mootness grounds is reversed where the voluntary cessation exception to the mootness doctrine applied.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/14/2009
• Decided 09/17/2009
• Published 09/17/2009

Judges

• Before: BETTY B. FLETCHER, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christopher Winter, Crag Law Center, Portland, OR, for the plaintiff-appellant., Marybelle Nzegwu, San Francisco, CA, for amicus curiae, Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rebecca Shapiro Cohen, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Seattle, WA, for the defendants-appellees.