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A Classic Distinction Between Legal Remedies and Equitable Remedies: 1st Circuit Overturns Decades-Old Precedent On Citizen Enforcement of Clean Water Act

Posted on May 13, 2022 by Erik McHale

The First Circuit recently overturned a thirty-one year old decision on citizen enforcement of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The now-overruled decision is North and South Rivers Watershed Ass’n v. Town of Scituate, 949 F.2d 552 (1st Cir. 1991), in … Continue reading →