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Showing posts with label Enviro Clean Water Act. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Federal judge rejects Perdue bid to recoup legal fees from Waterkeeper Alliance

Waterkeeper Alliance suit cost $3 million

Aug. 27, 2013 Written by Jeff Montgomery The News Journal


In a case closely watched by citizen advocacy and farm groups, a federal judge on Tuesday rejected a farm industry bid to collect $3 million in legal fees from a group that sued Perdue Farms and a family farm in 2010 over Pocomoke River water pollution.

U.S. District Court Judge William M. Nickerson tossed out the Waterkeeper Alliance’s Clean Water Act case last year, concluding in an opinion that the action was flawed and “not pursued or litigated as well as it could have been.”

“It is most unfortunate that so much time and so many resources were expended on this action that accomplished so little,” Nickerson wrote,adding later: “That, however, is not the same as concluding that the underlying claim was ‘frivolous, unreasonable or without foundation,’ or ever clearly became so.”


The Waterkeeper Alliance sued Perdue and the Alan and Kristin Hudson Farm near Berlin, Md., using a provision of the Clean Water Act to seek enforcement for what the group viewed as uncontrolled releases of poultry wastes... http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20130828/NEWS/308280047/Federal-judge-rejects-Perdue-bid-recoup-legal-fees?utm_source=Chesapeake+Bay+News&utm_campaign=800ca8d743-Chesapeake_Bay_News4_23_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_71ced15df1-800ca8d743-61679805
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