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Jurisdiction? What jurisdiction?

April 21, 2011 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Here's a sleeper case decided last month that has left me a little confused.  In Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition v. Coal-Mac, Inc., an environmental group brought a citizen suit action under the Clean Water Act (as well as a federal mining law) against a number of coal companies.  The group conten ...